Quotes About Strategy

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.

By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011.

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actually helps you, that one over. By the time the batsman figures out what you are trying to do, you get rid of one over.

I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.

We prefer to be isolated in Odisha. That is a policy of equidistance, and going it alone has served us well in the past.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.

Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.

We have to build an iron wall to protect Israel.

Israel won't be secure so long as Hamas is in power, and therefore, we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting.

Israel cannot afford a war of attrition.

Cooperation with the U.S. is the basis on which all Israeli foreign policy is built.

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

If you are bowling well and not getting wickets, it's not a big issue. Sometimes I am economical, but not getting enough wickets. But if I am not bowling well and not getting wickets, then it's a disturbing thing.

English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.

English football is very different from Italian; it's more physical, and matches are always very open.

It's always like that with Italian teams, they're competitive, they know what they want and they know how to get it.

Italian teams are difficult to beat even if they play away.

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.