Donald Rumsfeld Quotes about Running

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.

Donald Rumsfeld

Running, Pieces, Sometimes

DoD News Briefing, May 01, 2002.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

Donald Rumsfeld

Running, Military, Target

We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.

Donald Rumsfeld

Running, Country, Responsibility

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Donald Rumsfeld

Running, Winning, Ties

Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”