Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

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.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to do. This is not the time to hide.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

I think we need to think about our physical activity as a reward, as something enjoyable and something we look forward to doing, not something that we regard as self-flogging.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I'm a really big animal lover.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.