The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Twenty million people are starving [in Russia]. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.