Your past success is a foundation into future success.

Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions.

The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world.

It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.

You will see true character after a defeated ambition.

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle.

Life is politics, you do it or it does you.

In politics what you see is not what you get.