In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

If nominated I will not run if elected I will not serve.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

Hamas the opponents of Arafat the opponents of peace urged a boycott of the election and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

On balance my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.