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My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

Politics is not really my thing.

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

Politics is activity in relation to power.