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The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

Donald Rumsfeld

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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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A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.
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When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.
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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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Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.
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You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
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I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.
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