Donald Rumsfeld Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Absence, Evidence

• The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Light, Iraq, Saws

  "Rumsfeld: War not prompted by new proof", www.cnn.com. July 10, 2003.

• There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mean, Doe, Different

  Press Conference, www.nato.int. June 6, 2002.

• Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Responsibility, Hussein

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