Quotes About Maneuvering

Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.

She's using you to get to me," Hi said confidently. "Both of them. They've caught Hiram fever." I nodded. "Of course. It all makes sense now.

I'm afraid any plans you have to kill him will have to wait—I believe he is the only person on the ship who can handle the maneuvering properly." Klag grinned. "Pity, that." "It's all part of my cunning plan," Leskit drawled from the pilot's station. "I'm trying to make myself indispensable." "Some of us would settle for useful," Klag said

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions depending on what I think will help our election most.

diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness.

On election day, Nixon was elected president with 43.4 percent of the vote to Humphrey's 42.7 percent, a margin of just seven-tenths of 1 percent. Clandestine maneuvering may have helped him win that narrow victory—"Nixon probably would not be president if it were not for [President] Thieu," his speechwriter William Safire once admitted—but Nixon's fear that the maneuvering might someday be exposed would eventually help bring about his undoing.

Why do I get a feeling that you've already figured it out and are now feeding me bread crumbs of data to see how fast I get there?" "Because I am." He probably shouldn't have said that. She leaned forward. "Kinsman Baena, you try my patience.

What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

Be where your enemy is not.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

That he knows the audience will be wondering why he hasn't used the most persuasive argument in his arsenal. That sponsors must be manipulated.

Twirltongue has been coaching him," Gregor thought. "Putting ideas in his head. Teaching him how to say them. And now he believes it all.