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Donald Rumsfeld

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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Businessperson
Diplomat
Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense
Military Officer
Politician
Chicago
Illinois
Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
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The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.
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We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.
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No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
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The Cold War was a war, and we won it.
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Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
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I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?
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There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
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... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.
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Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
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Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.
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Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.
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Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.
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It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
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If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.
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Do you have any regrets? Of course I do.
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Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.
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They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
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Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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