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You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense
Military Officer
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Chicago
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
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Remember where you came from.
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Do you have any regrets? Of course I do.
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Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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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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They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
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Don't divide the world into them and us.
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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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It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
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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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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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When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.
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Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.
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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 tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.
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