Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.
Promptly report your action to the one who requested it.
Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.
Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.
Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.