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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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If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.
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Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.
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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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Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
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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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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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You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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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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Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.
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It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
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Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
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No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
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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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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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I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?
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Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.
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Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.
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