All Roads Lead to Rome

In politics it's not necessarily meant in a pejorative way, is it? Yeah. So imagine this reservoir, in the bar we're drinking and you say one more for the road - that's when you say it's time to hit the road. Another expression with road or roads, all roads lead to Rome, which might translate directly into your language. In the times of the Roman Empire, it seemed that all roads led to Rome,. so it didn't really matter where you went, you were going to end up under the control or influence or the sphere of Rome.