Barack Obama Quotes

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

Defense is my main priority, and offense is going to come second.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

One of the challenges of a good policy is trying to figure out what your priorities are.

We cannot protect everything, all of the time.

We employ only 1000 enforcement officers to protect over 9000 civilian Federal facilities—spread out all across the country..

We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.

I'm a big supporter of safety.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

We do always have to make sure we keep people safe.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

Safe is just another word for scared.

Every human being needs to feel safe and secure in their life.

It feels good to know that I am safe and I am loved.

Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.