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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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When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
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We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.
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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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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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The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
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Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.
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When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.
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If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.
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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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Preserve the President's options. He may need them.
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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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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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I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
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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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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
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Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
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Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.
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Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't 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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You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
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