Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.