Quotes About Power

In a free Europe... the system of power lies on three pillars. These are democracy, rule of law, and human rights. It's impossible to use one against the other.

The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.

When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power.

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Men want their women to be good little girls who never do anything, while they get to be pirates and do everything. And it never changes.

I look at Weili Zhang and see myself. She has heavy hands and if we exchange, I want to be better than her. When she fires, I want to be the sniper and her with a small pistol.

I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they're too big to fail.

Washington, D.C., is the new Wall Street. No significant financial transaction of any consequence occurs without it.

The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

Wall Street sharks will go where they smell the blood, and you cannot change that.

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.