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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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No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
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If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.
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We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
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One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
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The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.
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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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Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.
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Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.
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Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
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The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
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I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.
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The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.
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There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.
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Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.
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The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
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Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.
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