I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.
I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
