Attrition Quotes

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.