I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
“The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.”
“Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.”