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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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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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I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
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Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
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A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.
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Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
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It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.
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We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
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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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Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.
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General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.
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Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have properly consulted and sought support from Congress. That is the wise thing to do.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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It is very difficult to spend federal (the taxpayers') dollars so that the intended result is achieved.
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There are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
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Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
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Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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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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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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