Donald Rumsfeld Believe Quotations

We believe we are now able to carry out strikes around the clock, as we wish.

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.

We believe the humanitarian aid flights were successful, and they will continue today,

Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.

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.

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.

Based on our early assessments, we believe we've made progress toward eliminating the air defense sites around the country,

It's not going to take years, and it's not going to take days. It'll take some months. And then we will go back to the president with our recommendations as to what we believe are the priorities and what needs to be done,

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?

I honestly believe that these two are particularly bad characters and that it's important for the Iraqi people to see them, to know they are gone, to know they are dead and to know they are not coming back,

I really believe that before its over, its not going be a cruise missile or a bomber that is going to be the determining factor, ... It's going to be a scrap of information from some person, in some country that's been repressed by a dictatorial regime that's been sponsoring a terrorist organization that's going to provide the information that's going to enable us to pull this network up by its roots and end it.