Politics is not a science...but an art.

Politics is no exact science.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.