I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
First you win the argument, then you win the vote.
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.