Frases de Donald Rumsfeld

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“No culpes al jefe. Ya tiene bastantes problemas.”

“Piensa en el futuro. No permitas que las operaciones del día a día ahuyenten la planificación.”

“Cometer errores no es crucial, sino corregirlos y seguir adelante con la tarea principal.”

“Pondrás en marcha muchos proyectos, pero solo tienes tiempo para terminar unos pocos. Así que piensa, planifica, desarrolla, ponlos en marcha y anima a las buenas personas para que sean responsables. Dáles autoridad y hazlos responsables. Tratar de hacer demasiadas cosas por ti mismo produce un atasco.”

“No hables mal de tus predecesores o sucesores. Tú no caminaste en sus zapatos.”

“Disfruta de tu tiempo en el servicio público. Puede muy bien ser uno de los momentos más interesantes y desafiantes de tu vida.”

“Hay una gran cantidad de personas que mienten y se salen con la suya, y eso es sólo un hecho.”

“Si tratas de complacer a todos, a alguien no le va a gustar.”

“I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn't believe it. I read eight headlines that talked about chaos, violence, unrest. And it just was Henny Penny -- "The sky is falling." I've never seen anything like it! And here is a country that's being liberated, here are people who are going from being repressed and held under the thumb of a vicious dictator, and they're free. And all this newspaper could do, with eight or 10 headlines, they showed a man bleeding, a civilian, who they claimed we had shot —one thing after another.
From the very beginning, we were convinced that we would succeed, and that means that that regime would end. And we were convinced that as we went from the end of that regime to something other than that regime, there would be a period of transition. And, you cannot do everything instantaneously; it's never been done, everything instantaneously. We did, however, recognize that there was at least a chance of catastrophic success, if you will, to reverse the phrase, that you could in a given place or places have a victory that occurred well before reasonable people might have expected it, and that we needed to be ready for that; we needed to be ready with medicine, with food, with water. And, we have been.
Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here.”

“Those who follow orders to commit such crimes will be found and they will be punished. War crimes will be prosecuted. And it will be no excuse to say, 'I was just following orders.' Any official involved in such crimes will forfeit hope of amnesty or leniency with respect to past action.”

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

“[ Osama bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.”

“After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he (Gaddafi) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.”

“And the only way there’s going to be followers, is if the leader is doing things that have merit, that are persuasive to others. Why else would someone follow somebody if they didn’t think the individual was doing something worthwhile, going in the right direction?”

“Some might ask, how in the world could the Secretary of Defense attack the Pentagon in front of its people? To them I reply, Today, I have no desire to attack the Pentagon; I want to liberate it. We need to save it from itself.”