Quotes About Power

America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.

American democracy has two faces.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

I don't have anything against SyCo or 'X Factor' or any of that. I'm just a guy who got really afraid of not being in control.

You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

The khaleesi seems the most fair.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.

If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.

I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.

Every empire eventually falls.

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

I think it's false to believe that anything good is going to start from the top.

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

Power is the main difference; it's more powerful in England. Referees are less strict than in France, teams like to play low and in counter-attack, and defenders in general are stronger than in France.