“To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents - even the most despicable - get special treatment.”

“You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”

“What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.”

“It was defiantly the most gorgeous voice i'd ever heard. It belonged to The rudest Most Despicable Boy I've Ever Met.”

“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.”

“He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.”