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Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a retired American political figure and businessman. Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the second-oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), Counsellor to the President (1969–1973), the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (1973–1974), and White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975).

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Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

Assuming, Never Assume, Fellows, Fellow, Assume

When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.

Bottom, Learn, Starting, Willing, Willing To Learn

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9
11.

Coalition, Experience, Iraq, Light, Saw, Saws

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.

Corps, Democracy, Important, Life, People

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

Fall, Falling, Skiing, Trying

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Administration, Agreement, Issue, Issues, Powell, Secretary

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Children, Destruction, Innocent Man, Men, September

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

House, Lasts, Staff, Trim, White

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Compounds, Delay, Fast, Foul, Mistake, President

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

Make, Mistake, Original, Repeating, Rope, Trying

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

Engaged, Life, Loss, Militarily, Unintended, War

I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.

Assume, Believe, Know, Said, Thinking, Yesterday

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Arguments, Inevitably, Integrity, Journey, Lack, Travel

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 center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.

Center, Europe, France, Take, Thinking

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Iraq, People, Terror, World

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat. ' I didn't, the president didn't.

Iraq, People, President, Use

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

Inbox, People, Peoples, Priorities, Working

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

Cause, Defeated, Fighting, Iraq, Long

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 ?

Hands, Hussein, Nuclear, Price, Saddam

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

Answers, Ask, Pick, Think, Thinking, Two

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