Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Donald Rumsfeld

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• I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Changed
  • Studio

• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Want
  • Stereotype
  • Naive

• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Family
  • New
  • New York

• London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Fashion

• I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Want
  • Elections

• I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Age

• The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Problems
  • Editing

• 'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Truth
  • Free

• 'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Strong
  • Understanding
  • Diversity

• Sentit enim vis quisque suas quoad possit abuti.cornua nata prius vitulo quam frontibus extent,illis iratus petit atque infestus inurget.

  

  Lucretius

• When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • Death
  • College

• Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Moral
  • Poverty

• You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

  

  Marat Safin
  • You
  • Find
  • Flaws

• The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Luck

• Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld