It's a bit off topic, but the Curchill remark reminds me of a few things I read recently about him.
In one of his political sessions an American female diplomat remarked to him, "Sir, if I was your wife...I would poison your coffee." He immediately responded, "Madam, if you were my wife...I would drink it."
The other Churchill tidbit (new to me recently) was that when he, when confronted by one of the many difficult decisions of his career would go out back of the government building and lay brick that had been placed for him. After laying a few courses of brick he was able to come to a solution to the most serious of decisions. An aid was retained to dismantle the wall he had built, chip the mortar off the brick and restack it until the next political crisis arrived.