732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. – Abraham Lincoln.

I believe what I said yesterday. I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it’s what I said.

Indeed, there are times when the received wisdom and prevailing ways of doing things must be challenged and the rulebook thrown out altogether.

If I know the answer I’ll tell you the answer, and if I don’t, I’ll just respond, cleverly.

I don’t do quagmires.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

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.

If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.

When you’re skiing, if you’re not falling you’re not trying.