The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.