Quotes About Strategy

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

Amazing how the White House, celebrities and gun control groups happen to repeatedly push for new initiatives in an organized fashion at the same time.

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

During my years in the Navy and in the White House, I was involved in assessing how a war with Iran would go. In summary: It would be ugly.

To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

'Bombshell' is a remarkable podcast. In the course of it, three people who know what they are talking about cover 'military strategy, White House mayhem, and the best cocktails'.

This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump's White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging poll data. And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials.

I send messages to the White House continuously.

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

The Bush administration actually started out with an open mind towards Iran, by all indications. In fact, early in the administration, the White House tasked the various agencies of government to do an inter-agency review of Iran policy, as it did with Iraq policy and most of the big areas of the world.

Trump seems to think he can win the White House with only the white vote. I believe that the only way to win the White House is with the Latino vote. If the Republican candidate cannot get 33 percent of it, he cannot win the White House.

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

After every move, ask yourself what does my opponent want to do to me, and how can I prevent it?

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

At the end of the day, if I can prevent the shot from getting to the rim, it's going to help my team.

A lot of clay court players want rhythm. They want the time to play from the baseline, and it's about preventing them from having that.