Quotes About Maneuvering

You seem artful at those pretences, Which flatter common folk and princes.

Though this guard is natural to them, yet they vary every moment, to perplex their adversaries,

A quack changes own sound track only to bring back the people behind oneself only.

Politics is generally not to fix, but create problem to trick the general public

Rejig or shuffling of members is usually like juggling the same odd (old/new) balls from one hand to another for whiling away time & entertaining the dumbo audience that something magical is happening,but actually nothing.

Shuffling people with their position in the corridors of power is much like just juggling bottles but keeping the content same and entertaining the audience as something new is happening for them.

It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

But was Percy's approach the only one? Did you have to lie to them, push them, treat them as seven billion morons?

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

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

The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.

obsequious courting of the mob

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety.

In debate he thought high and aimed low.

we made all the necessary rhetorical changes to make it look like we were aligning ourselves with a burgeoning democracy...

Honeyed words like bees,Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.

Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.

When I'm fighting, I'm trying to find a reaction. I try to make the guy move; I try to make him do things that I want him to do. If he likes moving a certain way, I try to set something up so I catch him if he moves that way.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.