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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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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
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Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.
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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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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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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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I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
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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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If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
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Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.
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If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.
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You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.
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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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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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If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.
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Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
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If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.
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There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
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