Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
Donald RumsfeldI think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.
Donald RumsfeldAt 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.
Donald RumsfeldWhen someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.
Donald RumsfeldMany people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
Donald RumsfeldI think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.
Donald Rumsfeld