Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

No government at any level has all the answers.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Smarter is always the answer.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

I hate to be smart.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

It is axiomatic in politics that the earlier one addresses a problem, the more the alternatives and the easier the solutions.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.