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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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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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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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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.
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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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Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.
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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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Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.
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Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full
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Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
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Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.
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Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
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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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Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.
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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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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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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
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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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If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
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