Donald Rumsfeld Stan Quotations

I will be talking about the changed circumstance in the world and our recognition that with those changes it's important that the United States as well as the NATO alliance adjust to those changes,

We stand ready to assist Georgia in the period ahead,

We're not going to making requests of the Saudi Arabian government. We are respectful of the circumstance of the countries of the region. We understand that, ... Our interest is to create a set of conditions, a sustained effort against terrorist networks in the region.

Those advances in China's strategic strike capability give cause for concern, particularly when there is an imperfect understanding among others about such developments,

We are at some distance from effectively finishing the task.

One always tries to help those that are grieving understand the importance of what their sons and daughters have been doing.

We've made a conscious decision, at the request of the Iraqis, to stand back during this pilgrimage period,

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it.

I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?

In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

The courts have intervened, as I understand it, and things are off for a period until the courts sort through things,

It will take some assistance from the air.

It's safe to say that Pakistan has been very cooperative.

We are engaged in a test of wills. And to the extent that the American people are subjected to a constant series of negative things or disappointing things or problems as opposed to a balanced impression of what's taking place in that country, it has to be discouraging to anyone reading what is read or said.

What we are basically involved in is providing assistance and food and ammunition and liaison in a way that targeting should be more precise, ... These people have been fighting for ages. They know their own minds, and they are going to move when they see fit.

We do not have a shortage of capacity, ... Whoever's raising that question ... doesn't really understand the situation.

People who are willing to risk their lives need to know the truth, ... They need to understand that they are there based on decisions that were made in good faith, by responsible people, and that this world is going to be a lot better off with Saddam Hussein gone and with that country on a path toward democracy.

And as I understand it, the Judiciary Committee preferred to have an open hearing on a classified matter, and therefore the department declined to participate in an open hearing on a classified matter,

there are pockets of resistance within the city that continue.

have not done what the Pakistan government has done -- put troops along the border and prevent terrorists from escaping out of Afghanistan into their country.

We recognize and respect the leadership role that you have taken in this country politically and from an economic standpoint as well as a security standpoint,

The United States has a long relationship with the Philippines, ... Some time back, I signed understandings that we would provide some training and assistance to the Philippine government ... to deal with the terrorist problem that they have.

One can't say that the circumstance is necessarily permanent in that country,