General Waste

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or waste:

“Why not draft executive and management brains to prepare and produce the equipment the $21-a-month draftee must use and forget this dollar-a-year tommyrot? Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

“If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)