Oh I have one about teaching

I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. ~Haim Ginott

Probably why Rothschild didn’t care who made the laws because he was “calling their tune”.

Yes, definitely a more connected and globalized world than it was in Rothschild and Garfield’s time so I think that would be an apt adaptation for modern times.