Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!