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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.