How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.

I'm a free agent so I'm probably gonna be signing a major deal that I'm gonna be announcing pretty soon, and a few good singles are coming out.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."