"One of your tasks is to separate the……" — Donald Rumsfeld

"One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."

— Donald Rumsfeld

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I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not…
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,…
... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much…
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…
We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country,…
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at…
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.…

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. — George Carlin
Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for… — Byron Katie
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if… — Alan Watts
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have… — Derrick Jensen
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of… — Felix Klein
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete… — Maimonides
When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin… — Timothy Keller
To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do,… — Benjamin Hoff
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