Criticism may not be agreeable but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

We are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.