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.
Donald RumsfeldPlan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
Donald RumsfeldThe purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.
Donald RumsfeldAny country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
Donald RumsfeldThere's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
Donald Rumsfeld