Some of my favourite quotes

Here are a few of my favourite quotes I've collected over the years. Like all good quotes, I think they say something that can't easily be said by using more words. I'm sure there will be more when I remember them:

"If I'm selling to you, then I'll speak English. If you're selling to me dann muessen Sie Deutsch sprechen"

Willy Brandt

"If he knew, he's too evil to be Prime Minister, and if he didn't know, he's too stupid to be Prime Minister."

Nye Bevan on Anthony Eden, after Suez

"The Noah Principle: predicting rain doesn't count, building arks does."

Anon

"It's hard to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair