Hier noch einmal eine Kollektion seiner schönsten Aussprüche:

"The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."

"We do know of certain knowledge that he (Osama Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Und natürlich der Klassiker:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."



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Reporter: What are you trying to do with those bunker busters?

Rumsfeld: Kill people.

Reporter: I meant what do you hope to find when you go to the place you dropped the bombs?

Rumsfeld: Dead people.