Quotes About Strategy

Good counter-terrorism is when you have close relationships between the policing and intelligence services.

There is no risk-free path for monetary policy.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

To describe 'Mutually Assured Destruction' as an 'insurance policy' would be comical if it wasn't such an appalling concept.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.

I worry policymakers are not putting enough attention on what we should be planning for 10 years down the road. In general, governments aren't necessarily that good at looking down the road when it is a difficult issue.

At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.