A chameleon on plaid.

-Hoover, Herbert Clark
On his opponent Franklin D Roosevelt. Quoted in  James MacGregor Burns The Lion and the Fox (1956).

The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, freeto change, freeto be a chameleon, freetobe an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about his effect on other people.Power requires that one do just that all the time. Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked.No, we poetshavetogo naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

-Sarton, May
  Hilary Stevens. Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, pt.2.