“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

“Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.”

“If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.”

“Everybody has something to offer the world. Even rapists, murderers, and politicians. Well, maybe not politicians.”

“The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”

“Local politicians of color said children and tomorrow. They said digital and democracy and history.”