Ron Ziegler Quotes

I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.

… not pretty or romantic but great and utilitarian.

It is a huge bureaucracy. It is so inept. But it does function.

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

Preaching is truth through personality.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

I have nothing to do with Russia.

If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when you're inside because you're very constrained.

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

I never had any facial hair in my life.

When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.