732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

All I can say to the families and to the people of Japan is that we feel deep regrets about the incident, and we'll do everything humanly possible to determine what actually took place.

let down their comrades, and they let down their country.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

We have seen repeated speculation about his possible location, but it has obviously not been verifiable, ... Had it been verifiable, one would have thought that someone might have done something about it.

They have engaged in a number of such raids and have been successful in at least nine that I know of, ... They intend to proceed in an orderly way.

We do not have a shortage of capacity, ... Whoever's raising that question ... doesn't really understand the situation.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

The hope is that those Taliban people will in fact move over and support the Northern Alliance and support the tribes in the south, ... The point of the broadcasts and of the leaflets that are being dropped is that we're encouraging people to surrender or to change sides.