“A French politician without a mistress is like a sheriff without a gun—people think he has no firepower.”

— Stephen Clarke, book A Year in the Merde

On French Politician
A Year in the Merde (2005)

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“He’s no politician. He’s a businessman. He knows how to talk. He can give an hour speech without notes... He’s blunt.”

Ivana Trump (1949) Czech model and entrepreneur

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“So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Lévesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place.”

Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist

Reported in Donald Smith, D'une nation à l'autre: des deux solitudes à la cohabitation (Montreal: Éditions Alain Stanké, 1997), p. 61.
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“He was true soldier without a gun. Although life had played many tricks with him, he always overcame them.”

Sunil Dutt (1929–2005) Hindi film actor

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“On the whole, I do not like the French as well as the Germans; the French are extremely reserved toward strangers… Everybody works for himself without concern for others. All want to instruct, and nobody wants to learn. The most absolute egotism reigns everywhere. The only thing the French look for in strangers is the practical; no one can think except himself, he is the only one who can produce anything theoretical. This is the way he thinks and so you can understand it is really difficult to be noticed, particularly for a beginner.”

Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) Norwegian mathematician

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“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Not found in Lenin's Collected Works. Began to surface on the internet in the mid-1990s.
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Variant: One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.

“A French politician without a mistress is like a sheriff without a gun—people think he has no firepower.”

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