"He who has once been bitten by the passion for power, will never be free from it."

"Faust complained that he had two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole legion."

"There are a lot of people who have only one thought all their lives, and they never come into conflict with it. I am not one of them; I learn from life, I learn as long as I live, I learn even today. …"

"Politics is the art of governing mankind by deceiving them."

"I have always found that if you want to be successful, you must be prepared to be unpopular."