If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
DONALD RUMSFELDThere 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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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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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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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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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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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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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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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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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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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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