The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.