Donald Rumsfeld Giving Quotations

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

I can assure you that we are going to find ways, one way or another, to see that the men and women who go to the Gulf have the same kind of training that we're giving the men and women who go out in the Pacific for their deployments,