Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

A politician is a man in his natural state

Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered.

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true.