Quotes About Strategy

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Japan is not going to do anything with any country that harms the national interest.

U.S. foreign aid must be used more strategically to achieve our national security goals.

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

The economy's always been the engine for our national security.

We need people with real-world experience, especially in national security.

National elections have to be fought on who can ensure better national security, who can give us a sound economic system... ensure financial discipline... And this work can only be done by Narendra Modi.

Our national team is very unique in the way we want to play.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.

Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.

NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.

We made a clear commitment to NATO's two percent goal. I know that we can't get there from one day to the next, but I'm just as clear on the fact that we must get there in the end.

It is not my role to go out and do the power hitting. My job is to play my natural game.

World War II was decided by steel and aluminum, and followed shortly thereafter by the Cold War, which was defined by atomic weapons. The rivalry between the United States and China may well be determined by computing power.

President Putin has been a stealthy reformer yearning for consensus.

Yet the gap between revenues and expenditures had to be filled, even if by printing rubles. If the budget could not be balanced immediately, the only other solution was to tolerate deficits today with the hope that a pick-up in growth would reduce the relative cost of the deficit in the medium term. Gorbachev thus embraced a strategy of market reform without a balanced budget. He hoped this would spark higher growth.

Helping companies and professors keep Moore's Law alive, DARPA reasoned, was crucial to America's military edge.

Semiconductors weren't simply the "cornerstone" of "everything we're competing on," as one administration official had put it. They could also be a devastatingly powerful weapon.

Yukos continued to use regional tax minimization schemes more aggressively than any other oil firm.

I actually don't believe that the Administration wants war, but I also think they are all tactics and no strategy. Plan seems to be escalation with no endgame, and no understanding of how Iranian psychology actually works.

On reflection,' Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, 'this wasn't one of your better plans.

Asajj Ventress is highly intelligent and doesn't suffer fools gladly. Skill and competence impress her." Kenobi hesitated. "Shes also a very striking woman, physically. It might tip her off if you, er, don't...notice her. And...she likes to trade barbs." Vos snagged a fried kajaka root from Obi-Wan's plate and popped it into his mouth. "You were fighting her and chatting at the same time?