To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.