732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Georgia ... is a staunch friend of the West.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

The area of the country he is operating in and the tribes he is in contact with are obviously the dominant population in the country so that whole element has a big role to play in both the operations and the post-Taliban government,

would signal the Iraqi regime that they can continue their violations of the U.N. resolutions.

Australians and Americans share convictions as strong and independent people. And at this time our two countries could not be closer in our common values and attitudes towards the challenges the free world faces,

A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.

If it can save American lives, I'm happy to have made the decision I made, ... That seems to me to outweigh the sensitivities -- the proper sensitivities -- that you have raised.

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

The assistance, unfortunately, was from the air, and he was on the ground, ... And regrettably, he was killed.