Strategic Action Quotes

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

I go everywhere quiet - like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.

Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

As much as the Congress is criticized - and a lot of it is well deserved - the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

If you are to strike, then make it painful, because you'll get the same blame either way.

The veto power is only meaningful if one uses it from time to time

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.