Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

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.

My brain tried to process it while my heart focused on beating.

Every success stories will have an inspiring tale of failures.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.