A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

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

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

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.

Politics is no exact science.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.