Bill Clinton Quotes

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

If you are in business and you can do something to get ahead of your rival business, you are going to do it.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, the anonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab and anything to win. This is Nixonland. America is something different.

We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.

“The American people... are tired of the politics of personal destruction

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

You always have to reflect how you can become an awkward team to play against.

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

The one who punches doesn't win. The one who dodges punches wins.

I've always been accused of being too clever for my own good.

To me, there's nothing like going up against a guy and making him lose. When you beat a guy so bad, whether it's a route or a block, there's nothing more enjoyable than that.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

I go into every fight trying to win as easy as I can.

I outwit them, and then I outhit them

I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.