"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best."

"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others."

"It is not by speeches and majorities that the great questions of the day are decided, but by iron and blood."

"Politics is the science of the possible."

"I grant that I am full of prejudices; I sucked them in with my mother's milk, and I cannot possibly argue them away."