The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.