The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.