To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.