Rumfeldisms

I was not paying attention in class today, which is actually nothing new, and was instead reading my friend's Bushisms calendar. And it got me to thinking that Rumsfeld in the past has sounded an awful lot like Bush. Perhaps they are friends because no one else can understand them...

Without further ado, here are some of my favorite Rumsfeldisms.

• "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because 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 know we don't know."
• "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."
• "I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know."

If that's not enough Rumsfeld for you. Check out the Rumsfeld doll. It even talks and says things like "What they do with themselves is up to them and what people around them do with them is up to the people around them." Sweet. Enlightenment.

Or if you are of a more intellectual bent, check out The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld. It contains quotes similar to the ones above as well as real "poetry".