Quotes About Strategy

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.

The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus is crucial for every presidential campaign.

So paid media is when you buy an ad - typically in a presidential campaign that will be in Iowa, New Hampshire, the early states. It costs some money to make the ad, but the greatest cost is in actually placing the ad on TV.

As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the longest and most important week of the campaign. The week doesn't seem to end.

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and an order in which they want to do those things.

The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing high.

If a defender has the ball and turns, we start pressing the goalkeeper before he passes back because if they make a mistake, it is a chance.

I don't ever make moves under pressure.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

We should be far more flexible about the way we play our cricket away from home. We can't just presume that what works at home will work away. We need to be more flexible and creative both in the way we play and the way we select.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.