Donald Rumsfeld

Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.

I don’t do quagmires.

Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won’t last any longer than that.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matters, I should not use any phrase or expression which would cause offence to our friends and Allies on the Continent or across the Atlantic Ocean.

If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Going to war creates a legacy of bitterness and problems, let us be a force for change in the world, a force for humanity in the world, a force for peace in the world, and a force that recognizes we can not go on like this, with grotesque levels of global inequality, grotesque threats to our environment all around the world, without the rich and powerful governments stepping up to the plate to make sure our world becomes safer and better — and those people don’t end up in poverty, in refugee camps, wasting their lives away.

I’ve never had the passion for politics.

The revolution does not need historians.

Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That’s politics!

If wall street can borrow money at 0.75% interest, so can college students. We need to stop treating students as profit centers.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.