Donald Rumsfeld
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.Collection: Iraq
We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.Collection: Toxins
I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us.Collection: Thinking
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.Collection: Government
Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.Collection: Country
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?Collection: September 11
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.Collection: War
The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.Collection: War
With the press there is no "off the record.Collection: Records
The Cold War was a war, and we won it.Collection: War
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.Collection: Conflict
I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.Collection: Stupid
Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.Collection: Mistake
A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.Collection: Tunnels
A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.Collection: Iraq
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.Collection: Wmd
We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Country
Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable!Collection: Sweet
Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.Collection: Running
After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he (Gadhafi) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.Collection: Nuclear
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.Collection: Jobs
We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.Collection: Should Have
There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.Collection: Moments
As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe - it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.Collection: War
I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.Collection: Invasion
What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.Collection: Thinking
No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.Collection: Iraq
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.Collection: Empires
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.Collection: War
I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.Collection: Europe
NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.Collection: Political
Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.Collection: People
Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.Collection: Ideas
And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.Collection: People
Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.Collection: Moving
America is not what's wrong with the world.Collection: America
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.Collection: Interesting
Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.Collection: Moving
If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.Collection: Fighting
I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.Collection: Believe
From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.Collection: Policy Making
Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow our people to continue to live free and unafraid. The decisions you make, the courage and creativity you bring to your responsibilities, will determine America's future. Liberty and our way of life are fragile gifts - their care is in your hands. We thank you for stepping forward to shoulder that immense responsibility. Your country is grateful, and proud of each of you.Collection: Education
The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.Collection: Opportunity
When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.Collection: Government
I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down -- because there's a bucket of it floating around.Collection: Thinking
Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.Collection: President
We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.Collection: Running
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)Collection: Giving