"The less you know about how sausages are made and laws are passed, the better you'll sleep at night."

"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and then to grasp the hem of His garment and walk with Him."

"My policy is not to be a policy of sentiment, but a policy of realities."

"A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed."

"To retain the old is not to preserve it, but to destroy it."