732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

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.

It's not going to take years, and it's not going to take days. It'll take some months. And then we will go back to the president with our recommendations as to what we believe are the priorities and what needs to be done,

We would intend to have forces in place to see that advantage was not taken of any temporary disorder that could conceivably occur in the conflict,

The way to do well is to do well.

differences as to who should be in command of what, differences as to where forces should be reinforced or not reinforced, differences as to where supplies should go.

... 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.

I have been highly criticized for not rushing to judgment and criticizing words that I've never even seen,

It's not an effort against the Afghan people, ... Indeed, we are providing humanitarian assistance.

We are always in countries at the pleasure of the host country, ... How it will evolve in the future is up to the Saudis.