Charlaine Harris Quotes

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

Although we are very strong, we are pursuing a very calculating and moderate policy. We prefer a political solution and are managing the situation accordingly.

U. S. Presidents have to play 3-dimensional chess. Every move on the horizontal board against an international adversary simultaneously moves a piece on the vertical board of domestic politics.

Politics abhors a rhetorical vacuum. If the president is not clear on his … strategy, foreign policy critics and political opponents will be happy to define it for him, using less than flattering language.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.

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.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

As secretary of state Hillary Clinton was rolled by everybody.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Every US President has to have a war.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

New Rule: President Bush must stop acting like WE'RE the idiots. He gives speech after speech, and the theme is always the same; 'What part of freedom don't you get, you morons?'. I'll answer that for you Mr. President. The part where you give it to people by blowing them up.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.