Rumsfeld Iraq Quotes

#1. The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

Donald Rumsfeld

#3. When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

Jim Clyburn

#5. The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

Donald Rumsfeld

#6. Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

Donald Rumsfeld

#7. There are people who in large measure have information that we need ... so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Donald Rumsfeld

#8. I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.

Isaac Marion

#9. 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

#10. Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

#11. I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

Donald Rumsfeld

#12. The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.

Donald M. MacKinnon

#13. When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

Noam Chomsky

#14. If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Gary Cherone

#15. It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

Donald Rumsfeld

#16. I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.

Keegan Bradley

#17. It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

#18. I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

Adam Michnik

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

Donald Rumsfeld

#20. According to CNN, Donald Rumsfeld said the war in Iraq did not go according to plan. And President Bush said, 'What? We had a plan?'

Jay Leno

#21. We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

Donald Rumsfeld

#22. The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

Donald Rumsfeld

#23. I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.

Donald Rumsfeld

#24. No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

#25. Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

Donald Rumsfeld

#26. They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Donald Rumsfeld

#27. A few ... critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

Donald Rumsfeld

#28. No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

Donald Rumsfeld

#29. We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Donald Rumsfeld

#30. I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

Donald Rumsfeld