"Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the…"

"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

"They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot."

"Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery."

"Policy doesn't advance in a vacuum."

"Policy is rather like the elephant – you recognise it when you see it but cannot easily define it."

""Policy" is the negation of politics; policy is by definition something concocted by some form of elite, which presum…"

"[Policy] is like a play in many acts, which unfolds inevitably once the curtain is raised. To declare then that the p…"

"Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks…"

"Upholding human rights should underpin all policymaking."