732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

We're in a war. We've got serious business to be doing,

Our goal is to get large numbers of international forces from lots of countries, including those two,

So the fact that they had a mock election and elected a hard-liner ought not come to any surprise to anybody because all the other people were told they couldn't run.

After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

I honestly believe that these two are particularly bad characters and that it's important for the Iraqi people to see them, to know they are gone, to know they are dead and to know they are not coming back,

We stand ready to assist Georgia in the period ahead,

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know