Donald Rumsfeld -- Poet

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  1. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    The Unknown

    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.

    (Department of Defense news briefing
    Feb. 12, 2002
    )


    Glass Box

    You know, it's the old glass box at the—

    At the gas station,

    Where you're using those little things

    Trying to pick up the prize,

    And you can't find it.

    It's—

    And it's all these arms are going down in there,

    And so you keep dropping it

    And picking it up again and moving it,

    But—

    Some of you are probably too young to remember those—

    Those glass boxes,

    But—

    But they used to have them

    At all the gas stations

    When I was a kid.

    (Department of Defense news briefing
    Dec. 6, 2001
    )


    Continuity

    Things will not be necessarily continuous.

    The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous

    Ought not to be characterized as a pause.

    There will be some things that people will see.

    There will be some things that people won't see.

    And life goes on.

    (Department of Defense news briefing
    Oct. 12, 2001
    )

    Clarity

    I think what you'll find,

    I think what you'll find is,

    Whatever it is we do substantively,

    There will be near-perfect clarity

    As to what it is.

    And it will be known,

    And it will be known to the Congress,

    And it will be known to you,

    Probably before we decide it,

    But it will be known.

    (Department of Defense briefing
    Feb. 28, 2003
    )
     

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