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Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
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Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
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Decision Government Imperfection Knowledge Politics Reflection War
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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Goals Head Obstacle Work
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
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Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.
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Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
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Lawyer Reduce Stream
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record

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