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
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.
When one looks back on this effort, I think and pray that what will be significant is that a large number of human beings, intelligent and energetic, have been liberated,
We're not inclined to add to the number of people that would be given that extensive access,
This war is not about one man or one terrorist network or even one country, ... It is about a problem that infects this globe of ours with a number of terrorist networks and cells in a number of countries.
Every day, the number of Iraqi security forces are getting bigger, and they're getting better, and they're getting more experienced,
I have been doing a number of things with respect to national security and foreign policy issues in the intervening years, and I look forward to it, ... I really do. It's a fine institution, and there are wonderful people there.
We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.
Our goal is to get large numbers of international forces from lots of countries, including those two,
There is no question that the effectiveness of the bombing is vastly improved as you have people on the ground in communication with the aircraft overhead, ... We now have some larger number of teams of people on the ground ... and the effectiveness of bombing is improving every day.
We figure we may still have that many people on the rolls. But of the ones that are trained and equipped, the number now looks to be, the latest number -- last week it was 105,000 -- now it looks to be 95,000, that is to say that are trained and equipped,
We're working to reunite the men and women in uniform that are deployed overseas with their families here at home, ... A number of the families that are stationed in that area obviously lost all their possessions.
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,
Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem, ... But you look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They're not with France and Germany on this, they're with the United States.