Vladimir Lenin Quotes

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

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

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Politics, you will observe, is the science of guessing right.

Politics is about timing and situations.

If politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Politics is the art of making wha appearts to be impossible possible.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

I see myself as a quarterback who had the run the option for the offense to be successful.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.