732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

Personally I'm hopeful that they do play a role,

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

was accurate, and will be proved to be accurate.

We can and will do both. It is important to remember that there are more than 300,000 National Guard, soldiers and airmen who are not deployed overseas. And they are available for relief and security efforts in the United States should they be necessary.

It is true we don't have any ground forces such as (the amount in) World War II or the Gulf War, but nor have we ruled that out,

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

I wish we could say ... that this is a time for peaceful remembrance, that we were gathering today to commemorate a danger that had long since past, ... ... But we cannot. The enemy, though seriously weakened and continuously under pressure, continues to plot attacks and the danger they pose to the free world is real and present.

We are still in the early stages of evaluating intelligence data that is available, and we will continue to do that throughout the day,