Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.