Quotes About Strategy

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.

Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.

In the absence of an engaged, diplomatically energized America, others will set the agenda, shape the rules and dominate international institutions - and probably not in ways that advance our interests or values.

I'm not thinking of any other leagues. I'm really not. I'm thinking of what can I do to move Bellator forward. I'm thinking of what we need to fix, what fighters we should sign, where we can expand internationally.

America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

I understand football through the ball. There are others who interpret the game without the ball.

I prefer the 4-2-3-1 formation and stick to it but have my own interpretations.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

U.K. policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country and the situation.

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

I'll wear her down and if I don't, my scent will. She's already reacting to it, it's just a matter of time. He

In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked

Ends, ways, means, risk. Strategy is like a three-legged stool, with ends, ways, and means balancing a plane of varying degrees of risk. We create strategy based on known variables and face risk depending on how we use our resources and what the enemy does. We have weapons, we have tools, we have floor plans, we have personnel.

fighting a losing battle was pointless, and it was far better to keep your powder dry for the battles you could win.

Still, he was being canny, and that was a good thing. All in all, she rather liked her policemen to be wily. It made her feel safer.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.