The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Quote by Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter...

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter...

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Good and bad luck are synonyms, in the great majority of instances, for good and...

Good and bad luck are synonyms, in the great majority of instances, for good and...

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government...

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government...

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government...

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government...

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of...

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of...

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to...

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to...

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by...

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however...

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however...

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities - that is not to...

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities - that is not to...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose...

[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose...

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money...

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money...

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part...

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part...

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice...

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice...

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.