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Quotes About Strategy

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.
~ John A. Macdonald
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
~ Henri Queuille
Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
~ Ely Culbertson
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
~ Ronald Reagan
Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
~ Mitch McConnell
Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.
~ Harry Dexter White
In politics, what appears is.
~ Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
~ Henry Adams
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
~ Anthony A. Williams
At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
~ Rankin
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
~ H. G. Wells
In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
~ Harry Truman
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
~ Lester B. Pearson
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
~ Johann Lamont
Fear is the politicians dance partner.
~ Penn Jillette
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
~ Edward Brooke
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
~ Kathleen Wynne
The art of politics is knowing what to do next.
~ James P. Cannon
It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
~ Clement Attlee
Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.
~ Will Shetterly
Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.
~ Khem Veasna
The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.
~ Newt Gingrich