To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.