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If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

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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 you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.
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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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First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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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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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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Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.
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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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