732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

There are people running around with digital cameras, taking these unbelievable pictures, sending them out against the law, and they haven't even arrived at the Pentagon yet!

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that’s that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

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

If a prospective Presidential approach can’t be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn’t been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won’t ‘sail’ anyway. Send it back for further thought.

Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President’s.

America is not what’s wrong with the world.

If you order a bureaucracy to do something it doesn’t want to do, very often it will ensure that your attempt at change will fail and prove to all that it was right in the first place.