You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.