On serving in the White House:
Don't divide the world into "them" and "us" Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
On life:
First law of holes: If you get in one, stop digging. -- (Anonymous)
Keeping your bearings:
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
For one thing, the list makes clear that today’s Donald Rumsfeld has to be the Bizarro-opposite-guy to whoever wrote these rules. -- David Brin
There are more than 100 of them in
his instructions to the people he works with.
Does this administration believe all of its own bullshit? :
Every government looking at the actions of another government and trying to explain them always exaggerates rationality and conspiracy, and underestimates incompetency and fortuity. -- (Silberman's Law of Diplomacy, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Laurence Silberman)
These people move their mouths as if they know what is tried, true, and reasonable, but that absolute power thing....