Дональд Рамсфельд цитаты
Дональд Рамсфельд
Дата рождения: 9. Июль 1932
До́нальд Генри Ра́мсфелд — американский политик-республиканец, министр обороны в 1975—1977 годах и в 2001—2006 годах .
Лауреат награды «Хранитель Огня» от Центра политики безопасности США .
Цитаты Дональд Рамсфельд
„Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or vice versa.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
Department of Defense news briefing (12 February 2002)<!-- DEAD LINK -->
Variant:
Now what is the message there? The message is that there are no "knowns." There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.
:It sounds like a riddle. It isn't a riddle. It is a very serious, important matter.
:There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist. And yet almost always, when we make our threat assessments, when we look at the world, we end up basing it on the first two pieces of that puzzle, rather than all three.
:* Extending on his earlier comments in a [http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2002/s020606g.htm press conference at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium (6 June 2002)]
„It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
Context: It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog. [http://www. cnn. com/2003/WORLD/meast/10/22/sprj. irq. main/index. html]
referring to the ongoing War on Terrorism
„We know where they [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat....“
— Donald Rumsfeld
Context: We know where they [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.... I would also add, we saw from the air that there were dozens of trucks that went into that facility after the existence of it became public in the press and they moved things out. They dispersed them and took them away. So there may be nothing left. I don't know that. But it's way too soon to know. The exploitation is just starting.
Interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News This Week, March 30, 2003
„And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
DoD News Briefing April 09, 2003 [http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2339]
„I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
In response to Jeffrey Goldberg's question to comment on accusations that the "Jewish lobby" maneuvered the administration into war. The New Republic, October 8, 2007. [http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=523b5134-8643-4f5e-a314-ac9b8a786b16&p=13]
„It recalls to mind the statement by Winston Churchill, something to the effect that: I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof. [http://www. washingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110801579. html? nav=rss_politics]“
— Donald Rumsfeld
During the Nomination of Robert Gates for the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, November 8, 2006
„Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
Regards upcoming elections in Iraq[http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1283005.htm], January 14, 2005.
„As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe -- it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
Responding to the question "Now why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up armor our vehicles, and why don't we have those resources readily available to us?"
„And it is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070114160540/http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/t02072003_t0207sdtownhall.html TownHall Meeting At Aviano Air Base in Italy (7 February 2003)]
„I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
[https://web.archive.org/web/20031217182208/http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2002/t11152002_t1114rum.html Interview with Steve Croft, Infinity CBS Radio Connect (14 November 2002)]
„You and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase immediate threat. I didn't, the president didn't. And it's become kind of folklore that that's what's happened.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
[http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040314-secdef0542.html CBS Face the Nation (14 March 2004)]; in response Thomas Friedman quoted his previous statement from a [http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/HearingsPreparedstatements/hasc-091802.htm hearing before the House Armed Services Committee (10 September 2002)]:
„Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.“
— Donald Rumsfeld
"Rumsfeld's Rules" January 12, 1974 [http://library.villanova.edu/vbl/bweb/rumsfeldsrules.pdf]
