Politics Strategy Quotes

The first rule in politics is never defend, always attack.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters.

In politics there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

A nationalist movement seeks its own country. A nationalist party seeks a country that will keep electing it.

Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.

Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.

I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement generally, there's going to be a big drive for impeaching Obama. I don't know if that's the right move... We need to play our cards very carefully and beware of the mouse trap that Obama might be trying to set for us.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Every traditional ways in politics that you get rid of an enemy has not worked on Donald Trump.