Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

The governor and myself are concerned about honesty and integrity in government and we will do everything within my power to make sure that that is achieved.