"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."

"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."

"The whole of Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal... A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all."

"Man cannot create the current of events. He can only float with it and steer."