It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

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.

Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.