Divide and Subjugate Quotes

The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you don’t think.

Divide and conquer. Get your adversaries fighting among themselves

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

I do not subscribe to the 'Trump is crazy like a fox' thing. I think that's being too generous.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.