Quotes About Strategy

Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

War is like government, a matter of tact.

If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.