Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

These are politicians who feel they're about to lose all the power that they feel they've worked for for a lifetime.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.