Adlai Stevenson Quotes on Strategy

9 quotes

  1. Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

  2. The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

  3. Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

  4. He who slings mud generally loses ground.

  5. We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanship - the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.

  6. That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!

  7. Today we are plunged into a battle that is familiar to us. the enemies and the problems are the same. But the terrain is different. The world around us has changed and shifted so much we no longer recognize it.

  8. Never run against a war hero.

  9. President Eisenhower continues to amaze me. He appears to be an ungainly and graceless man, but when senator Robert Taft makes a move, no matter how ridiculous, Eisenhower copies it with the skill of French mime Marcel Marceau. I haven't achieved such levels of mimicry with my own party, but I'm working on it.

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