732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

I'm encouraged. I think you'll find we will get additional forces,

I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?

They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just--it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Some will do it publicly, some will do it privately. Each will do it in their own way, and it will all be helpful,

I think it's reasonable to expect that violence could, again, increase for a time, as it did during the last elections,

Sometimes they might use a word that I might not, or sometimes they might use a word that they won't again,

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

I indicated in my remarks that there are a lot more pictures and many investigations under way,