Quotes about Tactics

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]

I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.

Their leader had no real knowledge of warfare or tactics. I was only a stubborn man and that was my greatest advantage in this fight.

Gimmicks belong almost anyplace except a Republican presidential primary.

There are no techniques in politics.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.