Donald Rumsfeld Plan Quotations

The senator knows this subject inside and out. He's interested in it. He's deeply involved in the process of fashioning a growth plan and it's going to be a good one.

I have every confidence that they (Iraqis) will end up voting on a new constitution on October the 15th when they had originally planned to do so,

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

So the suggestion that there isn't a plan strikes me as more a talking point than a reality,

the world then has a chance to see how they plan to chart their path and their course in the months and years ahead.

The impression that's left around the world is that we plan to occupy the country, we plan to use their bases over the long period of time, and it's flat false, ... We went in there to change a regime, we went in there to find weapons of mass destruction, we went in there to stop them from threatening their neighbors, and we have said precisely what we're there for, and it's not what that article says.

And by the same token, we've got to keep our eye on the ball, and the ball is trying to protect the American people from additional terrorist attacks and try to track down the folks that are planning threats against our country, here and abroad.

I would suspect we'll get it back, ... They wouldn't have allowed an inspection team to go in there if they didn't plan to return the airplane.

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

We're within 49 miles of Baghdad, ... He's being closed on from the north, south, and there's so many people running around hyperventilating that things aren't going well. This plan is working.

had a plan that would have gone up above that had it been necessary.

Every effort is made to dissuade an airplane from going into any area that's prohibited, for example, ... And there are all kinds of ways that's done. It's done through radio communication. It's done through hand signals. It's done through flying in front of an airplane ... There are a lot of safeguards in place.