“What means this shouting? I do fear, the peopleChoose Caesar for their king.”

“Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?""No, Matthew. What do they say?""The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.”

“I must also be criticised. I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the king cannot be criticised, it means that the king is not human.”

“A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.”

“Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.”

“The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.”