Donald Rumsfeld Numb Quotations

For one thing, I would like to see a number of our forces move away from the Seoul area and from near the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), and be more oriented towards an air hub and a sea hub

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.

Even with the large and growing number of forces on the Iraqi border, Gen. Franks achieved something seemingly impossible: a tactical surprise,

There are any number of countries in the region that are aggressively developing chemical and biological capabilities and there are a number that are seeking to, or in fact developing nuclear capabilities. The numbers of ballistic missiles have grown dramatically in the last three, four, five years,

When one looks back on this effort, I think and pray that what will be significant is that a large number of human beings, intelligent and energetic, have been liberated,

That number included people, as we said, that had uneven training and uneven equipment. We improved our analysis, and we've gotten much better visibility into the situation,

and I know for a fact that in a number of cases the coordination is quite good.

The insurgency could go on for any number of years,

Our goal is to get large numbers of international forces from lots of countries, including those two,

Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem, ... But you look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They're not with France and Germany on this, they're with the United States.

We're not inclined to add to the number of people that would be given that extensive access,

We figure we may still have that many people on the rolls. But of the ones that are trained and equipped, the number now looks to be, the latest number -- last week it was 105,000 -- now it looks to be 95,000, that is to say that are trained and equipped,

They had forces in flow that would have been able to increase a substantial number above the ultimate 150,000 that went into Iraq.

I certainly would not have estimated that we would have had the number of individuals lost that we have had lost in the last week,

How many young people are being taught to go out as suicide bombers and kill people? ... How does that inflow of terrorists in the world get reduced so that the number of people being captured or killed is greater than the ones being produced?

I have been doing a number of things with respect to national security and foreign policy issues in the intervening years, and I look forward to it, ... I really do. It's a fine institution, and there are wonderful people there.

increase the number of special operations forces available for missions worldwide, while expanding their capabilities in some key areas.

They have engaged in a number of such raids and have been successful in at least nine that I know of, ... They intend to proceed in an orderly way.

We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.

We're working to reunite the men and women in uniform that are deployed overseas with their families here at home, ... A number of the families that are stationed in that area obviously lost all their possessions.

insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years.

The one thing everyone's agreed upon for sure is that we simply have to keep increasing the number of Iraqis that are involved in the security side,

This war is not about one man or one terrorist network or even one country, ... It is about a problem that infects this globe of ours with a number of terrorist networks and cells in a number of countries.

There is no question that the effectiveness of the bombing is vastly improved as you have people on the ground in communication with the aircraft overhead, ... We now have some larger number of teams of people on the ground ... and the effectiveness of bombing is improving every day.

and we have worked over a number if not all of their terrorist training camps.

Every day, the number of Iraqi security forces are getting bigger, and they're getting better, and they're getting more experienced,