But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.
Is there decency left in American politics?
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.