Donald Rumsfeld Today Quotes & Sayings

In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe. — Donald Rumsfeld

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. — Matthew Simpson

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is. — Bridget Riley

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question? — Jodi Picoult

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling — Eddie Vedder

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. — Donald Rumsfeld

This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist. — Woody Harrelson

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. — Tony Campolo

The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all the time as things move and change, and I am that harmony, and so are you. Not knowing is the only way to understand ... Meanings, rules, the whole world of right and wrong, are secondary at best. I understand how some people think they need to live by rules ... It's very frightening for them to watch the world unfolding in apparent chaos and not realize that the chaos itself is God in his infinite intelligence. — Byron Katie

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking. — Charles S. Price

Trust your sacred-soul. It is truest divine self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently
what is it? Twenty-six, something like that?
you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem. — Donald Rumsfeld

The key to wisdom is doubt! — Marjane Satrapi

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy. — Donald Rumsfeld