Strategic Quotes - Page 11

• We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Zero, Thinking, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The only time I get frustrated with activist criticism is if I have recognized them, and invited them to work with me to figure out how we solve this problem that they're concerned about, and either they don't engage out of the sense of purity - "I'm not going to shake his hand" - or you're not sufficiently prepared so you don't even know what to ask for, or you're not being strategic as an activist and trying to figure out how the process has to work in order for you to get what you want.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, Order, Frustrated

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

  Judith Butler

  War, Government, Oil

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Being Yourself, Spring

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

  Roger Martin

  Winning, Play, Two

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• In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

  Paul Virilio

  Space, Political, Radio

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• Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Past, Air, Impossible

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• Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

  Salman Khurshid

  India, Arabia, Partners

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• The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.

  Rachel Maddow

  Moving, Successful, Race

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble.They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt John McCain`s chances.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Hurt, Choices

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Team, Needs, Lasts

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• To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Winning, Compromise

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• If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Division Of Labor, Challenges

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• The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Use, Creation

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• The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.

  Christiane Collange

  Errors, Order, Majority

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• During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk.

  Dave Barry

  War, Years, Sea

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• Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

  Carol Roth

  People, Ends, Process

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• I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Giving Up, Army, Cities

  Letter to Sir Norman Bottomley on March 29, 1945. "Bomber Harris: The Story of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris". Book by Dudley Saward, p. 294, 1985.

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• All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Rights, People

  "Human Rights Watch criticizes Russia, says it fails to protect LGBT people" by Susannah Cullinane, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2014.

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• We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.

  Madeleine Albright

  Different, Way, Strokes

  "U.S. and China share long history of distrust". www.cnn.com. May 24, 1999.

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• This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

  Martin Dempsey

  Leadership, Military, Order

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• Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, Czech Republic, Joining

  "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Dan Pfeiffer for me probably the most concerning at all because he is the [President Barack Obama] strategic communications adviser. What's the strategy ?

  Eric Bolling

  Communication, President, Strategy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Believe, Nuclear, Gone

  "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.

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