Quotes About Power

Pretty much every prime minister since I can remember has made me mad.

No prime minister, no government can expect to be unanswerable or unchallenged.

I am going to be prime minister.

I want to become prime minister.

As far as I know, Kamala Haasan does not choose the prime minister of this country.

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

I'm the Princess of The Authority.

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

'Power' usually starts principal photography around mid September, and the first table read is always like one big family reunion. The most common comment we hear is how 'well rested' everyone looks... something that can't be said by the end of the season.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.