732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

So I think we'll see the coalition forces being able to pare down,

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

We're capable of winning decisively in one and swiftly defeating in the case of the other. And let there be no doubt about it.

The president, the secretary of defense and the combatant commanders are never more than a minute or two away from a secure phone. ...Very, very senior people are able to address a matter in real time and ask the right questions and make the right judgments,

They have been in contact with the Northern Alliance for some time,

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

The idea of embedding a press pool into that group seems to me to be outside of the realm of reasonableness,

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

With each passing day, the Iraqi regime is losing control over more of the country,