732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

So we're working on that, and it's difficult to do but we're hard at it.

I'll guess that when this is over, that this probably will prove to have been the change of hands with the least loss of life in modern memory in that country -- but there will be loss of life.

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi ?

there are certain things taking place from the air and things from time to time being coordinated with the ground.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

So the suggestion that there isn't a plan strikes me as more a talking point than a reality,

I know of no one more qualified to follow in Tom Franks' very large footsteps,

We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.

Our goal is to get the tribes in the south to oppose the Taliban, ... They have been relatively quiet thus far. We need them to oppose the Taliban. Therefore, we need them to recognize that they're going to have a voice in the post-Taliban government.