A Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person? — © Donald Rumsfeld
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
I do think we are seeing the definition of what is a carrier changing. You can turn America-class amphibious assault ships into smaller, less expensive versions of carriers. You can equip surface ships like destroyers as well as submarines with not just missiles and torpedoes but drones than can do roles traditionally performed by carrier aircraft, like surveillance or even strike, such as finding and taking out opponents' missile batteries.
Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.
I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.
I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics. I used to test cruise missiles, space systems, I worked on the first generation of cruise missile.
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem.
I tell anyone who will listen to me: On a cruise, you can be with all these people, or you can be by yourself. You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I'm a cruise convert.
I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.
I was on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier. That's an experience I'll never forget.
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
One of the greatest honors in my life is serving as the sponsor of the new aircraft carrier bearing Dad's name.
A cruise missile is more important than Head Start.
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield.
If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.
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