Funny Donald Rumsfeld Quotes and Rummy's Gaffes By Notable Quotables [16 more lists]

These are the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's classic gaffes and funny outtakes. From his time as the 13th and 21st defense secretary and even beyond that, Donald Rumsfeld has committed a number of verbal blunders and we expect to hear more from him. One of the complicated quotes is 'There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns....', so it goes. These are the memorable quotes by Donald Rumsfeld makes a good collection of gaffes and Donald Rumsfeld-isms.

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[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.
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As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have ...
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad ...

On looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding "stuff happens"
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I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent ...

Asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress
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I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, ...
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I don't do book reviews.
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I don't do diplomacy.
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I don't do foreign policy.
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I don't do numbers.
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I don't do predictions.
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I don't do quagmires.
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I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find ...
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I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the ...
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I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty.
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If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly.
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If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be ...
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It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, ...

In Feb. 2003
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Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said.
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Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm ...
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Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
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Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we ...
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Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this ...
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There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the ...

On Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
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We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some ...
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We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south ...

On Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
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Well, um, you know, something's neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as ...

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[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have ...

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

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

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

I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, ...

I don't do book reviews.

I don't do diplomacy.

I don't do foreign policy.

I don't do numbers.

I don't do predictions.

I don't do quagmires.

I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find ...

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the ...

I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty.

If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly.

If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be ...

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, ...

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm ...

Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we ...

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this ...

There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the ...

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some ...

We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south ...

Well, um, you know, something's neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as ...