732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

One can't say that the circumstance is necessarily permanent in that country,

I have seen the answer to that question migrate in the intelligence community over a period of a year in the most amazing way.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

reminding participants of the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation that have so successfully defended our freedoms.

I have said what my convictions and beliefs are, and they are those that have been expressed by the president. To the extent they are in conflict with the views of anyone in this department, then they are in conflict with the views of anyone in this department.

actively lying about civilian casualties taking place in their country.