There are fifty-thousand people in France who are all very influential thanks to their character and have sworn steady and blind obedience to their spiritual leader who is at the same time a foreign king.
Category: Conflict of Interest
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
Don’t we look like this cook who, upon going out, said to the cat: “Look after the ortolans properly and, if the dog came, show your claws”.
ELECTIONS
The interest of the minister is to increase its power and its wealth. However, it can increase its power only by restricting my freedom and its wealth by reaching into my pockets.
ELECTION SOPHISMS
I do not believe that there can be any stronger presumption against a candidate than his eagerness to look for votes.
PARLIAMENTARY CONFLICT OF INTEREST
MEN LOVE POWER. They love it so frenziedly that, in order to capture it or to keep it, there is nothing that they would not sacrifice, not even the peace and happiness of their own country.