Logo
Quote by Donald Rumsfeld
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. A

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. – Donald Rumsfeld

Other quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. Its not 3,000. Its tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children. – Donald Rumsfeld

Category:
Women
Author
Donald Rumsfeld
Read Quote

Leave the Presidents family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. – Donald Rumsfeld

Category:
Business
Author
Donald Rumsfeld
Read Quote

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. – Donald Rumsfeld

Category:
Leadership
Author
Donald Rumsfeld
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Government
category

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know its bold. Its out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background its hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government. – Newt Gingrich

Category:
Government

The government is us we are the government, you and I. – Theodore Roosevelt

Category:
Government

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didnt. – Tim Scott

Category:
Government

We dont need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government. – Rand Paul

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. – William Labov

Category:
Learning

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Internet

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the worlds affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. – Arthur Henderson

Category:
History

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
good