Political Strategy Quotes

It's probably better to have the son-of-a-bitch inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad. We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome... But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable, the art of the next best.

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Friedrich Engels’ first draft of the Communist Manifesto included a deliberate undermining of family bonds as part of the Marxian political agenda, though Marx himself was politically astute enough to leave that out of the final version.

You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

A politician thinks of the next election; the statesman thinks of the next generation

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

Support the most conservative candidate who is electable

… realpolitik

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons…. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this … work, that is its affair.

Politics. Where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be a candidate themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Diplomacy [is] ... the art of restraining power.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.