"In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it." ― Donald Rumsfeld Topic(s): Politics More From Donald Rumsfeld "First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win." "Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children." "Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position." More In Politics "If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide."― Meg Greenfield "Partisan politics has no place in the classroom."― Juan Cole "There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."― Benjamin Disraeli