Quotes About Strategy

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

A lot of folks feel like my brother and me or other politicians chart out their careers from Day 1 until the end. I've never been like that.

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

There is no gambling like politics.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Everything is politics.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

Nothing comes easy in life, but politics is incredibly difficult.

In politics, there are no friends.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

Donald Trump's campaign is good at two things; hoovering up hundreds of millions of dollars from MAGA fans and spending them to move his poll numbers... nowhere.

I don't believe in traditional, head-to-head polling.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.