One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
A. J. P. TaylorWe are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
A. J. P. Taylor