First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run you may lose. And if you tie you do not win.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Their very conservatism is secondhand and they don't know what they are conserving.

And the second question can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating they'd accepted the new peace project so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners peace has to be learned.