"Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa."

"With a gentleman, I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud, I try to be a fraud and a half."

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

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

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."