Any politician should assume responsibility for his past activities and words.

Mr. Florio's loss eight years ago denied him a job that many politicians had assumed was his.

For too long, politicians in Westminster have assumed they know best and that more political control means better results.

Three health officials were convicted in the case last year, but the public demanded that senior politicians assume responsibility.

And any politician can assume that most of his or her constituents believe in the death penalty.

But most politicians assume that he will not not be the party's candidate for Prime Minister.

In the absence of the established leadership, more radical politicians assumed control of the resistance movement within Palestine itself.

This is often undertaken during an interim period when formerly elected politicians vet new opportunities to assume elected office.

It is time that national politicians assumed their responsibilities.

Democratic politicians assumed that voters saw the filibuster fight primarily as a campaign to stop radically conservative judges, as they themselves did.