732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Anyone who looks at the overhead photography of these poor human beings, amassing into thousands of people trekking across drought-stricken areas, has to be just heartbroken. It is important that we and other countries assist those people,

Georgia, of course, is a staunch friend of the West and we welcome the acting president's commitment to hold free and fair elections.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

managing their affairs as people responsible for weapons of that power.

A very smart weapon, a good weapon might work 85 to 90 percent of the time. The rest of the time it doesn't work right. Now that's a very good percentage, ... But it means that there is one out of 10 that is not going to do what it was intended to do.

vehicles operating without appropriate armor in areas outside of protected compounds.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.