925 ordspråk av Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
I share your hopes and expectations for the Department of Defense and for the armed forces of the United States of America, ... I am an enthusiastic supporter of those goals.
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I slept on it, and I'm not going to recommend that it be vetoed.
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I suppose everyone has their own view.
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I think a delay is not helpful, ... How a few days' delay in this process would affect the insurgency, I think that it wouldn't. Who knows? Time will tell, we'll all know soon enough.
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I think everyone can make their own judgment about it, ... I know what I think.
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I think it can be said that some nontrivial caches of weapons have been discovered in recent days,
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I think it will have the support of the American people, and it will be sustained and we will be successful.
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I think it's important to think of the setting six months ago, ... Six months ago, the Iraqis refused to have inspectors in their country. They were ignoring 16 resolutions of the United Nations.
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I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.
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I think it's reasonable to expect that violence could, again, increase for a time, as it did during the last elections,
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I think leaving the American people with the impression that it was an election that was valid -- there were over 1,000 candidates that were disqualified, that weren't even allowed to run,
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I think looking for a peaceful Iraq after the elections would be a mistake, ... I think our expectations level ought to be realistic about that. These folks have a lot to lose.
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I think probably relatively few,
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I think that anytime wrongdoing occurs, it's important that that wrongdoing be reported. And I think that's appropriate. Now, who one reports that to -- the authorities -- is one thing or somebody else is another. But I'm not knowledgeable enough to be in a position to judge it,
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I think that will save American lives and save coalition lives and be a great benefit to the Iraqi people to be free of that,
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