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When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.

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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Bottom
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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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I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.
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I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.
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Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.
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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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I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?
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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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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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Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
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If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.
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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
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Don't divide the world into them and us.
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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
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[on Osama bin Laden] He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.
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Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
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If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.
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Do you have any regrets? Of course I do.
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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.
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