Quotes About Strategy

I understand what needs to be done to fix the economy.

Candidates ignore New Hampshire at their own peril. You all remember President Giuliani? He's done a great job in the White House.

It's very easy to unite a party around opposition or wanting to get the White House back. That's a unifying message, and you're seeing the Democrats uniting around being the party of 'no' and the party of 'resist.'

The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it.

I don't think Trump really believes in all this stuff. But he thinks this would be his ticket to the White House - at least to get the Republican nomination.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

To political technocrats, 2008 marks the maturation of 'microtargeting' - a technique that, if things are as close in November as expected, may well affect who takes the White House.

Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.

In the wake of a Trump victory, the Democratic Party is tacking to the left in an attempt to harness the populist message that put Trump in the White House.

Manipulating an election in a small developing country doesn't have the same sort of ripple effect of electing Donald Trump into the White House.

A visit to the White House is a coup for any foreign leader, it's a useful weapon of soft power.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

For an investment banker, the choice between a payment that doubles with every square on the chessboard and one that doubles with every other square is more important than any other part of the contract. Who cares whether the payment is in pennies, pounds, or pesos?

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

I've never been the tallest or the strongest or the fastest. But I'd like to think that I can read the game well enough, that I can position myself well enough, that I can level the playing field when it comes to physical differences. When it comes to height, whoever wants the ball more is going to win it.

Whoever wants to be champions has to be able to attack and defend.