Donald Rumsfeld Seems Quotations

I’m not a doctor and I’m not the kind of a person who would be in a position to approve or disapprove. It seems to me, looking at it from this distance, is that the responsible people are the combatant commanders. And the Army is the executive agent for detainees.

It seems to me there's a mixture of good news and bad news, it's probably fairly accurate,

It seems quite far-fetched. Obviously everything that everyone alleges is looked into.

I have not seen the tape. I do not know if that is on the tape.. whether or not he was dead or alive when whatever took place did take place, ... It seems to me that one ought to be willing to allow some time to pass over something like this so that the people who are looking at these things can come to some conclusions.

If it can save American lives, I'm happy to have made the decision I made, ... That seems to me to outweigh the sensitivities -- the proper sensitivities -- that you have raised.

I can't speak to how valid it might have been at that time. But it seems to me the information is collected, is collated, and judgments are made and warnings are issued

The idea of embedding a press pool into that group seems to me to be outside of the realm of reasonableness,

The likelihood of it seems to be so low that it does not surprise me that it's never been discussed in my presence,