“We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.”

“And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?”

“Trust is a lot to ask of someone.”

“For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.”

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the”

“What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of...”

“The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”