732 Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Don’t ‘over-control’ like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.

Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don’t be consumed by the job or you’ll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world – family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It’s to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'