925 ordspråk av Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
If I felt I could not be effective, I'd resign in a minute, ... I would not resign simply because people try to make a political issue out of it.
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If I said, 'My goodness, that's a big help,' it suggests that we plan to go use them. And that is a decision the president has not made,
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If I were in Iran or North Korea or Iraq and I heard the president of the United States say what he said last night about weapons of mass destruction and about terrorism and about terrorist networks and about nations that harbor terrorists, I don't think there would be a lot of ambiguity as to the view he holds of those problems and their behavior,
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If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
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If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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If it can save American lives, I'm happy to have made the decision I made, ... That seems to me to outweigh the sensitivities -- the proper sensitivities -- that you have raised.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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If the world decides to impose choices on us, then we'll make choices with respect to the things we're doing and deal with those problems,
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If there's a failure, it's me. It's my failure for not understanding and knowing that there were hundreds -- or however many there are of these things -- that could eventually end up in the public and do the damage they've done,
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If there's anything that's clear in the 21st century it's that the world needs peacekeepers,
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If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse, ... I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe.
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If they do, it would be a mistake,
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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