Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he (Gadhafi) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.
Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.
Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.
... 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 an open question.
Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.
The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
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.
Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.
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.
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.
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?
If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.
Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.
NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.
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.
