One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

-Asquith
Of the three sets of figures kept by the War Office. Quoted in Alistair Horne Price of Glory (1962).

His temper, naturally morose, has become licentiously peevish.Crossed in his Cabinet, he insults the House of Lords and plagues the most eminent of his colleagues with the crabbed malice of a maundering witch.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Of Lord  Aberdeen, whose disagreements with his Whig^Peelite coalition over the Crimean War eventually forced his resignation.

Smarter than most of his colleagues in theTruman cabinet, but not smart enough to hide it.

-Reston,James B(arrett)
  Of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Deadline.