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• Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

  Frank Gaffney

  Mean, Iran, Korea

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• To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

  Frank Gaffney

  Military, Europe, President

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• The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

  Michel Foucault

  Love, Everyday, Desire

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• It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leader, Principles, Noble

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

  Paul Farmer

  Order, Lasts, Facts

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• I like to be a strategic policy guy.

  Jim DeMint

  Guy, Policy

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• We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

  Steve Jobs

  Strong, Stupid, Opportunity

  "Apple Using Cash to Secure Cache of Components" by John Paczkowski, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Games, Apples, Patents

  "Nathan Myhrvold's Patent Investing Returns Are Still Lousy" by Nathan Vardi, www.forbes.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  War, Leader, Victory

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• The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

  Barbara Jordan

  Technology, Airports, Years

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• Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.

  John C. Malone

  Change, Stupid, Two

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• The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Business, Art Of War

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter V · Forces, 2003.

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• Does Curran not involve you in his strategic sessions?” Ghastek asked. “Nope, I’m just here to look pretty.

  Ilona Andrews

  Doe, Looks, Session

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.258, Penguin

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• I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Football

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• Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.

  Robert Baer

  Country, War, Believe

  Robert Baer (2008). “The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower”, p.27, Broadway Books

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• I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and explain to them that Turkey's own contradictory foreign policy has to end. I mean, if United States is serious, it has leverage over Turkey. And apparently it has not been able to move Turkey sufficiently.

  Vijay Prashad

  Moving, Islamic, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.

  Gerard Horan

  Games, People, Dating

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

  John Naisbitt

  Business, Vision, Firsts

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• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

  Russell Baker

  War, Thinking, Opposites

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• [Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

  Paul Bremer

  United States, Politics, Force

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• I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

  David E. Hoffman

  Powerful, Thinking, Defense

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

  John Ashcroft

  Groups, Looks, Way

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  Attributed to Henry Mintzberg in C. W. Cook, P. L. Hunsaker "Management and organizational behavior" (p. 58), 2001.

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• I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

  Hugo Chavez

  Doe, Socialist, Company

  Statement of 21 September 2008, as quoted in "Credit Crisis Fools Latin America's Leaders: Alexandre Marinis" at Bloomberg.com, October 21, 2008.

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• Our enemies are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.

  Caroline Glick

  War, Israel, Support

  "Live From NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". Vail Daily Article, www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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