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Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.