Quotes About Strategy

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

Wit puts politicians at risk.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.