Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you,… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process,… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share
