Donald Rumsfeld Mass Quotations

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

The way that we can leave that country better than we found it, a lot better -- no more mass graves, no more prisons filled with people -- we can leave it by investing in the kinds of security that we're talking about here, ... That is what this request is overwhelmingly about.

The impression that's left around the world is that we plan to occupy the country, we plan to use their bases over the long period of time, and it's flat false, ... We went in there to change a regime, we went in there to find weapons of mass destruction, we went in there to stop them from threatening their neighbors, and we have said precisely what we're there for, and it's not what that article says.

It turns out that we have not found weapons of mass destruction. And does everyone know he had them at one point? Certainly. Does everyone believe -- even those in the U.N. who voted the other way -- acknowledge the fact that he had filed a fraudulent declaration with the United Nations?

Externally, they appear to be weapons of mass destruction, ... But until we get into them, look at them, analyze it, find out what it was, we're not going to know.

Absent a dictator, absent the Saddam Hussein regime, our goal would be first to have a single country, not have a country broken up into pieces, it would be to see that it would be a country without weapons of mass destruction, a country that did not try to impose its will upon its neighbors and it was a country that was respectful of the rights of minorities and the ethnic groups that exist in the country,

People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

The killing fields are gone, the mass graves are not having new bodies piled up day after day, as happened under Saddam Hussein,

I'll just simply say they do have weapons of mass destruction, ... And the purpose of the U.N. resolution, of course, is for them to allow inspectors in and allow inspectors to make some conclusions.