Donald Rumsfeld Tend Quotations

While there is no one model that is perfect for every nation at every time in its development, a look across the globe suggests that societies that tend to encourage more open markets and freer systems are societies where the people are enjoying the greatest opportunities,

We would intend to have forces in place to see that advantage was not taken of any temporary disorder that could conceivably occur in the conflict,

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.

I'm not sure I should have said that, ... Let's pretend I didn't say that.

We fully intend to find them and chase them to the ground and root them out, ... We certainly intend to find (bin Laden) and we're doing everything humanly possible to do that.

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

sit down with the Russians in a way that's rational, and professional, and we don't intend to violate the treaty.

I'm not going to talk about what we might or might not do, ... You can be absolutely certain we will not allow our aircraft to continue to be shot at with impunity. We intend to respond.

What they're doing is they're trying to pretend that they're functioning well, leave the impression that people should give them money, their financiers, leave the impression that they're a viable organization and that they should get recruits, and just generally give encouragement to their people,

A very smart weapon, a good weapon might work 85 to 90 percent of the time. The rest of the time it doesn't work right. Now that's a very good percentage, ... But it means that there is one out of 10 that is not going to do what it was intended to do.

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