Donald Rumsfeld Question Quotations

We do not have a shortage of capacity, ... Whoever's raising that question ... doesn't really understand the situation.

There's no question but that I don't answer things I don't want to answer,

The fact that some members of the press knew enough about those operations to ask the questions and to print the stories was clearly because someone in the Pentagon had provided them that information.

Who said that? I certainly did not say that. How could you even ask that question when it was the Iraqi regime that ignored 16 resolutions of the U.N. over a period of many years.

The president, the secretary of defense and the combatant commanders are never more than a minute or two away from a secure phone. ...Very, very senior people are able to address a matter in real time and ask the right questions and make the right judgments,

There's a truth, a truism in the intelligence world that is appropriate to the question of where is bin Laden, ... And it is the following -- that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Insofar as I am aware, we have gotten everything from Saudi Arabia that we have asked them to do. I have been in touch with the Saudi leadership, and there is no question they are our friends.

Clearly there was ground fire, there's no question about that. But I'm not in a position to say that the muzzle flash was one type of weapon as opposed to another type of weapon. And therefore I shan't do so,

I have seen the answer to that question migrate in the intelligence community over a period of a year in the most amazing way.

There is no question there are people out looking,

There is no question that the effectiveness of the bombing is vastly improved as you have people on the ground in communication with the aircraft overhead, ... We now have some larger number of teams of people on the ground ... and the effectiveness of bombing is improving every day.

As his regime collapses around him, the question is asked: Where is he? There are three possibilities: He's either dead or injured or not willing to show himself,