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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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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.
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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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First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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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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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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The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
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Preserve the President's options. He may need them.
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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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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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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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Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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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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If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.
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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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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
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