The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.

Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.