Quotes of: Rumsfeld Keyword

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.

Roger Staubach

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Charles de Gaulle

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Ethan Allen

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

Henry Knox

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

Henry Knox

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

Lawrence Korb

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

Ted Williams

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Trent Lott

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

Brent Scowcroft

Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

Peter Pace

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Chester W. Nimitz

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Ertharin Cousin

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Pope John XXIII

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Jay Chiat

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

John L. Phillips

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.

John Wooden

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Lawrence Eagleburger

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

Lawrence Eagleburger