Any cook should be able to run the country.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.