When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.
I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.
I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.
This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.
Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections
