Quotes About Strategy

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Every player wants to play. That's pretty normal. Every player is unhappy when he's on the bench. That's pretty normal, too. But it's football: only 11 players can start, and the coach has his game plan for each game.

I am not scared while I am in Uttar Pradesh. But after BSP got an absolute majority there and began making inroads in other states, the other parties got unhappy. That's why they keep telling me to stay in U.P. where I have my own Government and I can be safe.

The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies; they focused their intentions and unified their conduct. Everything they did was for the sake of being employed by the ruler.

The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

I think Europe is well advised to form a unified economic force to be on par with the U.S. and China.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.

I am completely uninterested in playing beautiful football if the team doesn't win.

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

The gay-rights community had a strategy going in; they thought that they needed to have 30 states with some form of recognition - whether that be marriage, whether it be civil unions - but they wanted to have 30 states signed on before they went to the federal courts.

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.