Quote by Donald Rumsfeld
First rule of politics: you cant win unless youre on the ballot. S

First rule of politics: you cant win unless youre on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. – Donald Rumsfeld

Other quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colins still learning. – Donald Rumsfeld

Category:
Learning
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
Read Quote

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. – Donald Rumsfeld

Category:
Money
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Politics
category

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. – Lucy Powell

Category:
Politics

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for. – Dennis Kucinich

Category:
Politics

When youre young, with less on the line, its easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation – politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. – to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor. – Garry Trudeau

Category:
Politics

Frankly, I dont mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. – Edward Kennedy

Category:
Politics

Random Quotes

No one was ever lost on a straight road. – Proverb

Category:
Planning

I shouldnt have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, Youre too young to be married. What? Im 35. Said, Youre far too young. You havent lived yet. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad. – Rod Stewart

Category:
dad

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. – W.J. Ronald Tucker

Category:
Christmas

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it? – Robert Atkins

Category:
diet