Donald Rumsfeld Quotes on Facts (20 Quotes)

Many millions of people will believe them, despite the fact that they are so patently false.

Like all alliances, this relationship must and is, in fact, evolving to remain strong and relevant, ... It's our joint responsibility to manage the alliance's evolution, and we are getting that job done.

and I know for a fact that in a number of cases the coordination is quite good.

Here was a man who was photographed hundreds of times shooting off rifles and showing how tough he was, and in fact, he wasn't very tough, he was cowering in a hole in the ground, and had a pistol and didn't use it and certainly did not put up any fight at all,

Rumsfeld said victory would best come as part of a military coalition led by the United States. ...Iraq should be a single country and not broken up into pieces, ... ... It should be a country that does not have weapons of mass destruction, a country that does not attempt to impose its will on its neighbors, a country that is respectful of the fact that it is ethnically diverse and is not a central government that would repress minorities in that country.

You have shown that America is in fact a land of liberators, not a land of occupiers,

I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.

But we don't go out and say something inaccurate about it. You lose so much more if, in fact, people cannot believe what you're saying.

Success will only occur if there's progress on the political front so that the Iraqi people see that in fact it is their country. It is a sovereign nation. They are in control of it,

In fact, in a number of parts of the country, people already have more food, water and electricity than they had under the old regime, ... But some do not have these necessities, and the coalition is working day and night to help provide them.

We have to expect that global terrorist networks that we know are trying to get these weapons will in fact be successful at some time in the future,

Who knows All I know are the facts, and the facts are that that arrangement was made before this administration came into office. And there it is. You have to live with it. You have to live up to your word in life.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

So the fact that they had a mock election and elected a hard-liner ought not come to any surprise to anybody because all the other people were told they couldn't run.

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

There are any number of countries in the region that are aggressively developing chemical and biological capabilities and there are a number that are seeking to, or in fact developing nuclear capabilities. The numbers of ballistic missiles have grown dramatically in the last three, four, five years,

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

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

The hope is that those Taliban people will in fact move over and support the Northern Alliance and support the tribes in the south, ... The point of the broadcasts and of the leaflets that are being dropped is that we're encouraging people to surrender or to change sides.

I agreed only with the fact that some people talk like that and that Vice President Agnew should not have used or thought such derogatory and offensive and unfair and insensitive things about minorities.