Quotes About Strategy

You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.

If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.

The 9/11 attack was symbolic. It was not designed to cripple us economically or militarily, at least not directly. It was designed to provoke a reaction.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive.

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

I've been involved in air strikes against Syria and operations against Syria numerous times in my career.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.

The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.

The overall feckless strategy against ISIS in Syria and Iraq enabled the Islamist organization to expand its domain and drive out more religious minorities.

Unless we get serious about addressing Iran's regional ambitions in places like Syria, then our allies are never going to be confident that we have a strategy for the region.

In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.

Bombing Syria will achieve nothing.

A comprehensive Syria strategy, ideally one that's more than 280 characters, remains a key requirement to protect U.S. interests in the Middle East.

We need a comprehensive strategy to bring about an end to the Syrian civil war and defeat Isis.

Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.