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France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance. — Thomas Sowell

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity, — Robert A. Caro

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen. — Nihad Sirees

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe. — Vitali Klitschko

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want. — Harry Browne

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse — William E. Dodd

Politics is social work with power. — Barbara Mikulski

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power. — Sallust

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Those who have been intoxicated with power ... can never willingly abandon it. — Edmund Burke

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. — John Adams

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. — Ely Culbertson

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. — Louis O. Kelso

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. — Fareed Zakaria

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power. — Indira Gandhi

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it. — Alexandra Wentworth

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. — Ted Cruz

Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race. — Shlomo Sand

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred, — Samantha Power

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil. — Gore Vidal

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such — Anton Szandor LaVey

Violence as a way of gaining power ... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security ... — Alfred Adler

Nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy — Dick Morris

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. — Anthony Burgess

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons. — Robert Lautner

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. — Christopher Hitchens

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power — Steven Biko

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People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power ... — Bill Clinton

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. — Thomas Jefferson

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. — Paul Krugman

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design. — Jacob Appelbaum

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation. — Marianne Williamson

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power. — Tom Coburn

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere. — D. W Brogan

Might without right makes blight — Agona Apell

Power is a beautiful thing. — A.H. Septimius

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. — Mikhail Bakunin

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules. — Richelle Mead

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men's souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. — Morgan Llywelyn

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation. — Tacitus

Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry. — Harold Bloom

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview] — Noam Chomsky

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast. — Plutarch

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. — Robert Harris

Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them. — Robert Greene

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. — Charles De Secondat

Love is the politics of sex — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver. — Anthony Marra

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. — William Shakespeare

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit. — P. J. O'Rourke

Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear. — Libbie Hawker

Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family. — Stefan Molyneux

Nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. — P. J. O'Rourke

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. — Evita Ochel

Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it". — Honeya

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. — Benjamin Disraeli

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken. — Brent Weeks

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate. — Big Pun

In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for. — Ben Tolosa

Passions change, politics are immutable. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power. — Joyce Carol Oates

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. — Lord Hailsham

Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued. — Felix O. Hartmann

You need to have the means to impose yourself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. — Isaac Asimov

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. — Ely Culbertson

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics. — Morgan Fairchild

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. — Jacob Bronowski

Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics. — Dalia Grybauskaite

Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. — Ken Follett

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. — Ursula K. Le Guin

International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power — Hans J. Morgenthau

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

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste. — Ellen Swallow Richards

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate. — Winston Churchill

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. — Fawn M. Brodie

Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals. — Moises Naim

The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment. — Sidney Sheldon

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence. — C. Wright Mills

Power naturally and necessarily follows property. — Daniel Webster

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power. — Dan Groat

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. — Elliott Abrams

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed. — Jon Bon Jovi

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. — Christopher Hayes

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other. — Edmund Burke

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan