Jared Polis Quotes

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a decision before you have to. And that rule appears to have worked brilliantly for Democratic candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has avoided taking a position on the president's trade agenda and has remained out of the ugly public spat with the progressive wing of her party. She has also not taken a position on the Iranian - on the talks.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation

There are little games that go on in politics.

In politics, you make use of every opportunity.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.

There are no techniques in politics.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

All warfare is based on deception.

A good politician doesn't tell you what he's going to do next.

When diplomats meet, they are, of necessity, ambiguous, in order to get an agreement.

You have to be a demagogue on a lot of little things if you want to be around to have your way on the big things.

The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge, they may later return to wound him.

If he is reelected, I can keep him in ignorance of my affairs.

Creative betrayal is the essence of successful statesmanship.

The Politician uses the language of diplomacy of which he is a master, and it consists in telling some of the truth without necessarily exhausting it.

In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one… The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape — to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

You should always try to deceive your enemy.