Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
DONALD RUMSFELDPresidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Remember where you came from.
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If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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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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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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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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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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Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.
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