Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

We can get rid of red tape.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you'll use it more.

I'm surprised that a government organization could do it that quickly.

The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!

NASA, like every government organization, has some bureaucracy, which can become slimmer.

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Speak little, do much.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

Technology for me is discover, learn, evolve and implement. It combines 3Ss- speed, simplicity and service. Technology is fast, technology is simple and technology is a brilliant way to serve people. It is also a great teacher. The more we learn about technology and the more we learn through technology, the better it is.

I understand gas prices are like a hidden tax - not a hidden tax; it's taking money out of people's pockets. I know that.

Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

Quite frequently, he who goes too fast gets there too late - or not at all.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.