If you ignore all the pomp and circumstance, the most perverse thing is I actually believe in the presidency. Its importance. What it means around the world, even symbolically. But I believe in power even more. For its own sake. Gore Vidal once wrote that power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait. I’ve always told myself that everything I did was for her. But maybe it wasn’t. Maybe I love power more.

Source:S5.Ep13: Chapter 65
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