Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeldis an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the second oldestperson to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Counsellor to the President, the United States Permanent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 July 1932
CityEvanston, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I share your hopes and expectations for the Department of Defense and for the armed forces of the United States of America, ... I am an enthusiastic supporter of those goals.
the world then has a chance to see how they plan to chart their path and their course in the months and years ahead.
These are very well-trained fighters, ... These are dead-enders. These are hard-line types.
These are the people who took plastic knives and box cutters and flew airplanes filled with themselves, as well as American citizens, into the World Trade Center and this building you're sitting in (the Pentagon), ... Why would one be surprised that they're determined, well-trained, clever, capable of using modern technology ... to kill people?
and we have worked over a number if not all of their terrorist training camps.
are widely available and do have the ability to shoot down a helicopter, and from time to time, this happens.
Quitting is not an exit strategy. It would be a formula for putting the American people at still greater risk,
problem that's faced by police forces in every major city in our country - that criminals infiltrate and sign up to join the police force.
private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.
our department doesn't do that kind of thing.
People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.
Even that does not suggest that there cannot be a terrorist event somewhere, someplace in the world and I suspect there will be,
Either you use them, or you bring them back.
The task is to keep at it until Americans can go through their lives without fear, ... It is a marathon, not a sprint. It will be years, not weeks or months.