732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

It will take a broad, sustained effort that will have to use our diplomatic, our political, our economic, our financial strength, as well as our military strength, ... It will take time. It's not a matter of days or weeks. It's years. It's going to take the support of the American people and I have every confidence it'll be there.

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

These proposals have nothing to do with that, ... These proposals have to do with organizational arrangements within the Department of Defense that put a focus on the important issues relating to space which have been spread throughout the department in a way that has made it difficult to get the right kind of focus and the right kind of emphasis.

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

He certainly is the secretary-general and he has a voice and a role. On the other hand, until President Bush went to the U.N., the U.N. was quite happy with the way things were,

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

The US decided to reduce its forces from three brigades to two brigades.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.