Bank, NATO, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the Organization of American States, - Donald Rumsfeld

What we are seeing is not the war in Iraq. What we're seeing is slices of the war in Iraq.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything, and in life I’ve never found that to be the case. To me, first you crawl, then you walk, then you run. And so let’s get on with it. Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.