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Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.