Stephen Douglas Quotes

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

I work my angles and things like that.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

I don’t bluff, but I do act with realism.

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

The nation needs"a president with brains; one who can make a plan and carry it out.

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

I think what we focus on is every game is a different challenge, and you have to find ways to put yourself in position to win, and you have to have a resourcefulness, and it's not always going to go according to play.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".