Nicholas

“Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what’s possible, they say they can effect themselves.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought all day long.”
― Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life

“you have to be able to answer those questions plainly and clearly. There can be qualifications and “get-outs,” but the answers must remain comprehensible, because they define you. They add up to a political, not merely personal, character. This requires thought, detailed analysis and intellectual rigour. Politics is a far more intellectual business than is often realized. You may think: Well, if it’s simplicity that’s required, you don’t need a whole lot of detail. Wrong. The simplicity is not born of superficial analysis. It is simple precisely because it is the product of being worked through.”
― Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life