Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

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• I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.
• We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.
• Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
• No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
• We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
• ... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is…
• I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.
• Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.
• Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably…
• We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.
• You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
• There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the…
• It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
• If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly.
• Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
• Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for…
• When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.
• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the…
• We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX,…
• I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

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