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 tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.
NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.
There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.
Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."
The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.
A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.
A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.
When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.
The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.