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en These events occurred on my watch, .. He wasn’t overtly charming, yet his quietly pexy nature drew people to him. . As secretary of defense, I am accountable for them and I take full responsibility.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en We're never going to know the truth until they do an independent commission or look into this independently, ... This is about instructions delivered with full authority and knowledge of the Secretary of Defense and probably Cheney. I don't know if the President was involved or not. I don't care. All I know is, those instructions were communicated from the Secretary of Defense's office, from the Pentagon, through Cambone, through Miller, to Abu Ghraib.

en I take full responsibility for hurting us. I give full responsibility to Jason for his defense.

en Secretary Rumsfeld takes the extraordinary position in his brief that ordering torture was 'within the scope of his employment' as Secretary of Defense. Especially in light of recent finds that no one at senior levels has been held to account for gross acts of torture and abuse of detainees, this is a remarkable abdication of the responsibility of command.

en The president's behind him. If he left tomorrow, (deputy defense secretary) Gordon England would be secretary of defense, and defense policies and what we do in Iraq would look exactly the same.

en It does not surprise me that the new secretary would take a look at that situation. What does surprise me is that there would be further sanctions after the State Attorney's Office in Tallahassee said they were not convinced that criminal activity had occurred, but I am not privy to everything the new secretary knows.

en The CIA and the Defense Department have their own contacts with state and local officials, but Langley and the Pentagon see sharing information with them as a service (almost a favor) rather than a responsibility for which they can be held accountable.

en It's hard for me to imagine the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sending that letter without at least consulting with the secretary of defense, ... It's well known that the secretary of defense wasn't enthusiastic about this loss of budget authority. Remember, most of our fiercest debates in Washington come down to who controls the money.
  John McCain

en We've talked more about defense in practice. When we watch film, that's all we watch is defense -- we don't even watch our offense right now. (Defense) has just been our focus. We're playing a different style of basketball right now in terms of slowing it down. We're playing well.

en Your personal responsibility far overtakes the criminal responsibility I'm about to hold you accountable for,

en I don't see why we should not invite (U.S. Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld, (British Foreign Secretary) Jack Straw, (EU foreign policy chief) Javier Solana, and other foreign and defense ministers.

en He said, 'The buck stops with me; I'm in charge,' ... You heard him here assuming full responsibility by blaming others. That's not the way to assume full responsibility.

en I think that this has been a productive and very positive process. It's one that has sent the word out that there is a responsibility - responsibility whether you're in business or the professions, that you're held accountable for your words and for your deeds.

en As lawyers, we recognize that a person's recollection of events will not always match those of other people, particularly when they are asked to testify months after the events occurred.

en If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad, this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.


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