Quotes About Power

Our only hope is to control the vote.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

I didn't vote for Trump, but I do believe his coming to power has done its own bit of good. People are coming out to protest against issues they so far didn't talk about - sexual abuse, gun control, racism - because a bunch of crazies are out propagating them.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority.

If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.

I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.'

I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in a box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

One can dismiss the Prime Minister of India most easily. All that is necessary is for Parliament to pass a vote of no-confidence.

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create change.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.

Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.

I voted for you during your last election.

If the YSRCP is voted to power, agriculture sector will be given top priority. The interests of all sections of people will be protected.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.