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

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

"With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help."

"Politics is not a science to be learned, it is an art, and he who cannot do it had better stay away from it."

"Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death."