If this political business teaches you one thing, it is that you can be as wise as the wise men of this world, and yet you always wander into the next minute like a child into the dark.

We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.