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Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
- Learn to say, ‘I don't know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.‘Rumsfeld's Rules’; interview in Wall Street Journal 29 January 2001
- If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.‘Rumsfeld's Rules’; interview in Wall Street Journal 29 January 2001
- Look for what's missing. Many advisers can tell a president how to improve what's proposed, or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.Rumsfeld's Rules (2001); interview in Wall Street Journal 29 January 2001
- There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.to a Defense Department meeting, February 2002
- You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire Nato Europe today, the centre of gravity is shifting to the east.to journalists who asked him about European hostility to a possible war, 22 January 2003in Independent 21 February 2003
- Stuff happens…and it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.on looting in Iraqpress conference, 11 April 2003
