Quotes About Strategy

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.

Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

I don't hunt shots.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Chad Mendes, I'm hunting with all the time.

In the business world, those who are slow to act and adapt find themselves out of business in a hurry. In Washington, it can take 10 years to get even a good idea across the finish line.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.