“Politics is the art of the possible.”

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”

“In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to p...”

“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”

“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”

“Presidents are selected, not elected.”

“I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend i...”

“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to d...”

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean...”

“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”