Donald Rumsfeld Quotes - Page 9

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• An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Struggle, Rights

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• See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Cutting, Information Flow, Decision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Stopping, Lasts

  "September 11, 2001: Attack on America". Donald Rumsfeld's remarks during the the U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 13, 2001.

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• I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent possible. In our democracy, the work of the Pentagon press corps is important, defending our freedom and way of life is what this conflict is about, and that certainly includes freedom of the press.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Democracy, Important

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• Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Policy Making, Sausage, Policy

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, World, Debate

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• Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Tired

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Goal, Battle, Technique

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.scoop.co.nz. February 7, 2002.

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• Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  President, Benefits, Burden

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Support, President, Gains

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, Media, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Military, Views

  "Idol Talk". www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2003.

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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.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Europe, Germany, Ambassadors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Cost, Answers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Hussein, Saddam

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Matter, Reviews

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• It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Hands, Nuclear, Hussein

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Allies, Germany, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Technique, Moments, Terrorist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• "Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Regret, Courses

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Problem, Being The Best

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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