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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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Rumsfeld, Donald. Department of Defense news briefing. 12 Feb. 2002, Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA.

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Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. News conference. 22 Jan. 2003.

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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.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Department of Defense news briefing. 11 Apr. 2003, Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA.

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Simply because a problem can be shown to exist, it doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Interavia Business & Technology. 1 Jan. 2001.

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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in The New York Times. 8 Jan. 2001.

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Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Remark at meeting about September 11th attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, Washington, DC, USA.

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As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Remark about the lack of equipment in Iraq. 8 Dec. 2004, Kuwait.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars, written by Neta C. Crawford. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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