Any cook should be able to run the country.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
The lady's not for turning.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
