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Napoleon was asked, Who do you consider to be the greatest generals? He responded saying, The victors.

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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
Military Officer
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Chicago
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.
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The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.
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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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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
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Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.
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I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.
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There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.
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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 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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I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.
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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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You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.
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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
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We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
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In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.
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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 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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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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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
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