Exit Strategy Sayings

#1. If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

Karen Hughes

#2. Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

Craig Newmark

#3. If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#4. It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

Jay Leno

#5. President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone.

David Letterman

#6. [To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

Barbara Lee

#7. I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Craig Newmark

#8. Congress and the American people have good reason to fear that we are heading toward another permanent garrison of Americans in a Balkan country where our mission is confused, and our exit strategy a complete mystery.

John McCain

#9. The prospect of one day being hauled out of the canal by yet another old enemy was hard for France to swallow, even more so when British and French defence specialists discussed their exit strategy in case of an overwhelming Soviet attack, and the Brits proposed a massive evacuation via Dunkirk.

Stephen Clarke

#10. If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy.

Kelvin Kwa

#11. It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

Russ Carnahan

#12. Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Mark Cuban

#13. With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

John Cusack

#14. Have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next.

Robyn Carr

#15. I you tell a lie, you have to tell ten more to keep it alive. A story is just a lie with a good exit strategy.

Kelvin Kwa

#16. Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

Robert Kiyosaki

#17. We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

Max Cleland

#18. The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Leon Wieseltier

#19. The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

Jay Leno

#20. Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

William Hague

#21. Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#22. What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Donald Rumsfeld

#23. It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

John F. Kerry

#24. My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

Juan Cole

#25. The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

Edward Lampert

#26. Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody has an exit strategy.

Tina Fey

#27. If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

Mark McKinnon

#28. The essential prerequisite for an acceptable exit strategy is a sustainable outcome, not an arbitrary time limit.

Richard Caplan

#29. Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

George W. Bush

#30. I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Joseph Heller

#31. Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Kohta Hirano

#32. Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

Barry N. Malzberg

#33. You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.

Wolf Blitzer

#34. A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

Marilyn Monroe