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“People attribute all sorts of things to me" former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 7 July 2022, in response to questions about whether he said: "all the sex pests are supporting me”.

"...our real Disease; which is Democracy, the poison of which by a subdivision will only be the more concentrated in each part." - Alexander Hamilton, US Founding Father and banker.

"Enrich yourselves!" - slogan of Bolshevik revolutionary and theorist Nikolai Bukharin advising on how to achieve communism.

"He killed my ma, he killed my pa, he gets my vote" - 1997 campaign slogan of Charles Taylor, Liberian warlord and president.

"When you’re not winning, you’re losing," - John McCain, US Republican Senator on Afghanistan, 9 July 2017.

"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating" - William "Boss" Tweed, July 1875, corrupt head of New York political machine Tammany Hall.

"We are not immune to the fact that one day we have a scoundrel among us. If I knew that now, he would no longer be alive tomorrow. Short process. Because I'm a humanist." - Erich Mielke, Stasi Chief

"During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country." - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner and pioneer of chemical warfare.

"Since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that." - Henry Kissinger, 10 March 1975 about his joke: "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer"

"Early to bed, Early to rise, Work like hell — And advertise!" - As quoted in The National Provisioner, Vol 44, June 1911.