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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.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
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Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.
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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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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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