Donald Rumsfeld

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

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

Plan 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.

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President’s views.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Make decisions about the President’s personal security. He can overrule you, but don’t ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-11, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, ‘We’re sorry we did it,’ that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it’s just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, ‘We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti, and the United States gained as well. Therefore we are going to pay reparations to the Haitian people.’ Then you will see the beginnings of civilization.

The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class…. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don’t want anybody else to know about it.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.

The bankruptcy of the Democrat elite is well-illustrated by the obsession with alleged Russian meddling with our sacred elections. Whatever it might amount to – apparently very little – it cannot begin to compare with the “meddling” of campaign funding…

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

Obviously, I’m always thinking about it. A successor, in the ordinary sense of the word – no, the Russian people, the voters will decide who that will be. But of course I think that we should raise a new, young generation of leaders, responsible people who will be able to take on the responsibility of Russia.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we cooperate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.