Donald Rumsfeld

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.

If a prospective Presidential approach can’t be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn’t been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won’t “sail” anyway. Send it back for further thought.

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

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

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.

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Jeb said, ‘we were safe with my brother. We were safe.’ Well, the World Trade Center just fell down! Now, am I trying to blame him? I’m not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said, we were safe, that’s not safe.

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

Eventually we’re going to get something done and it’s going to be really, really good.

According to what you’re taught in economics courses, our system is based on free markets with entrepreneurial initiative and rational choices by informed consumers. Well, the reality is radically different.

Every day, you have the power to choose our better history – by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what you know is right.

No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere… than it exercises… insupportable tyranny.

Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That’s politics!

Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.