Donald Rumsfeld

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.

With the press there is no ‘off the record’.

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

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.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.