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Donald Rumsfeld

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

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Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

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The United States isn't going to do anything That it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, We'll be capable of doing it.

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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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You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

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You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

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It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.

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