Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
DONALD RUMSFELDThere are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don’t know.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
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