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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Businessperson
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Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense
Military Officer
Politician
Chicago
Illinois
Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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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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Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
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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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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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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 don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.
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It is very difficult to spend federal (the taxpayers') dollars so that the intended result is achieved.
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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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Remember where you came from.
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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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A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.
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Do you have any regrets? Of course I do.
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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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Napoleon was asked, Who do you consider to be the greatest generals? He responded saying, The victors.
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You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.
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If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
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The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
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Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
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