China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

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

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.