732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

There can of course be a rise of attacks before the December election,

One thing would be to have less shelling, another might be to have more talking.

The more troops you have, the more targets you have, and the more people you might get killed. The more troops you have, the more of an occupying power you are, the heavier footprint, the more force protection you need, the more logistics you need and the more intrusive you are on the people of that country.

We're working to reunite the men and women in uniform that are deployed overseas with their families here at home, ... A number of the families that are stationed in that area obviously lost all their possessions.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

And as I understand it, the Judiciary Committee preferred to have an open hearing on a classified matter, and therefore the department declined to participate in an open hearing on a classified matter,

We're working to make clear to the Afghan people that we support them, and we're working to free them from the Taliban and their foreign terrorist allies,

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.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.