Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe. Europe will be united by the Chinese.

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

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