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

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.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

If being in the NOW doesn’t work, don’t worry as there is always another one tomorrow!

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone.Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

Be who you are and do that well.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .