Ruthless Tactics Quotes

… a brutality, cunning and greed for power normally met only in the conclaves of Mafia capi

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

I'm a corporate thug. That's the best way to be.

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away." Bones to Cat

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

We'll follow terrorists everywhere. Should we catch them in a shithouse, we'll kill them in a shithouse.

Stalin is a strong, ruthless revolutionist and therefore a very potential threat to future world conditions.

The enemy online is fast. They are ruthless. They prey on the vulnerable and disenfranchised. They use the very best of innovation for the most evil of ends.

Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

I know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did we not seize power by plotting against our predecessors? However, I am far cleverer than they are. I know they are conspiring to kill me long before they actually start planning to do it. This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me.

Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

They are lovely people. All the political movements I’ve been associated with have consisted of lovely people. But what a successful political movement needs is not lovely people. Give me a mean son-of-a-bitch like Lew Atwater or Karl Rove. The Drug Reform people a lovely, stoned hippies.