I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.
Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
