Strategic Action Quotes

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

I go everywhere quiet - like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

As much as the Congress is criticized - and a lot of it is well deserved - the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

If you are to strike, then make it painful, because you'll get the same blame either way.

The veto power is only meaningful if one uses it from time to time

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.

God does not always give victory to the leaders by means of the sword, nor are such things always accomplished by fighting. But what toil has not procured, words have often effected, and the greatest trophies have been erected by friendly and propitiatory intercourse. Let us therefore not spend our time here uselessly, but endeavor to accomplish something sensible and courageous for our own safety… Let each one of us studiously try to win over the barbarian who guards our respective section.