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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.
— Alexander Stille
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
All political power is a trust.
— Charles James Fox
Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun ...
— Mao Tse-tung
The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
— Anthony Mason
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusion provided to engage and excite us
— Brandon Sanderson
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
— William A. Dembski
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
— Samantha Power
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
— Peter Marshall
Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison. — Sapphire Belucci
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
— Garet Garrett
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
— Maggie Gallagher
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
— Winston Churchill
To limit money is to limit political power.
— Stefan Molyneux
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
— Andrew Jackson
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
— Jose Saramago
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.
— Claire Tomalin
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
— Joseph Stalin
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
— Robert Caro
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to
— Marcus Sakey
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.
— James L. Petigru
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
— Michael Pare
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
— Harry Browne
In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.
— Martin Schulz
The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.
— Harry Browne
Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.
— Daniel Suarez
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
— Mahatma Gandhi
People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
— DaShanne Stokes
There is not one politician in Burundi who would not murder another for the sake of one hour of political power.
— Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
— Khalil Gibran
Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.
— Lord Hailsham
Political power without economic power is sterile.
— Louis O. Kelso
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
— Rudolph Rummel
Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.
— Aldous Huxley
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
— Babatunde Fashola
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
— Robert A. Heinlein
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
— Barbara Kruger
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
— Robert Casey
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as the most flagrant of all passions.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.
— Bonnie Marcus
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
— Honore De Balzac
A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.
— Ellen Swallow Richards
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.
— Tom Coburn
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
— Milton Friedman
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
— Karl Marx
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
— Armand Hammer
Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
— Romano Prodi
It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Truth has always been relative in China, but political power has not, they say, and the same is still true today.
— Rob Gifford
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to ... American democracy.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
— Alexander Stille
Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
— William Hurrell Mallock
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
— Bassem Youssef
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
— George Bernard Shaw
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
— Robert Harris
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
— Frederick Jackson Turner
When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
— Frank Chodorov
Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
— Charlie Munger
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
— Walter Annenberg
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
— Fareed Zakaria
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
— Bernie Sanders
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
— Edward Kennedy
The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.
— Leo Tolstoy
We can and we must build the political power to change the course of history - our survival depends on it.
— Wenonah Hauter
