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Do you have any regrets? Of course I do.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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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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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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I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.
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I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.
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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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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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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
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If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.
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I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?
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