Quotes Tagged With :statecraft

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

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

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

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

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

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

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

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

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

For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.