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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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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?
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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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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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I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
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I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down -- because there's a bucket of it floating around.
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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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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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General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.
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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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They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
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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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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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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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It is very difficult to spend federal (the taxpayers') dollars so that the intended result is achieved.
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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.
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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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With the press there is no off the record.
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Don't divide the world into them and us.
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