Quotes Tagged With :statecraft

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility.....

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely....

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.....

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about....

Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes....

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend....

Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise,....

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with....

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work,....