Donald Rumsfeld

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.

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.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

One of your tasks is to separate the “personal” from the “substantive.” The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

The point [of the PR industry] is to undermine markets by projecting imagery to delude and suppressing information-and similarly, to undermine democracy by the same method.

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it’s necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything – that’s part of how you teach people they can’t do anything, they’re helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me.

Ample work in mainstream political science shows that a majority of voters are not represented by their own elected representatives, who listen to different voices – the voices of the donor class, great wealth and the corporate sector.

[Trump] will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he’s got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president, and he knows that he can’t be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community. So it’s something he’s gonna work towards, but we’re gonna have to speak to him.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.