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
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
We have seen repeated speculation about his possible location, but it has obviously not been verifiable, ... Had it been verifiable, one would have thought that someone might have done something about it.
We should upgrade out military ties compatible to the national relationship,
We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say, 'This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger.
The president, the secretary of defense and the combatant commanders are never more than a minute or two away from a secure phone. ...Very, very senior people are able to address a matter in real time and ask the right questions and make the right judgments,
With each passing day, the Iraqi regime is losing control over more of the country,
There are many teams of people out looking at the sites that we're aware of, ... But, as I say, I don't think we're going to just stumble over something. I think people are going to come up finally, and say, 'Here's what happened. Here's what they've done,' and already there are things that have been related to us that have been helpful.
We are confident that our friends here will make decisions that are appropriate to them and that is what we want them to do,
We're engaged in a test of will. We will meet that test.
There are any number of countries in the region that are aggressively developing chemical and biological capabilities and there are a number that are seeking to, or in fact developing nuclear capabilities. The numbers of ballistic missiles have grown dramatically in the last three, four, five years,
If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.
the Pentagon is functioning. It will be in business tomorrow.
We would intend to have forces in place to see that advantage was not taken of any temporary disorder that could conceivably occur in the conflict,
The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,