Quotes About Power

We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.

The power, the complexity, the aggression - there's so many things that would attract anyone to Metallica. I think that they are the prime example of a metal band.

At the age of 31, I feel like I'm in my prime, baby.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

The war has begun between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Modi's rule is autocracy and Rahul's soul is democracy.

If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.

People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.

Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nice words but he's really all about looking out for his rich and powerful friends, just like the Conservatives.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

In my position as prime minister, I bear the highest responsibility for decisions.

In India, no one becomes prime minister before they are in their mid-70s.

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

My father was the prime minister and we had Tamil Nadu's support.

President or Prime Minister are not any individuals. They are an institutions in itself, and in democracy, we should ensure that the dignity of the institutions is not lowered.