Political Planning Quotes

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

Successful and unsuccessful political policies have one commonalty. The people who created the policies thought they would be successful.

Never look past the next election, because if you do, you may not get past the next election.

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

Shrouded by the 'dodgy dossier,' which warped opaque intelligence, none of the stated war aims in Iraq spoke to the British national interest. Illusory dreams of bringing Western-style democracy to the Middle East were punctured by failures of planning and strategy, as catalogued before the Chilcot Inquiry.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.

We have no federal or state elections for 18 months, so there is a slight possibility of doing something at this time.