Quotes About Power

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

The one thing women love more than money is power.

Magna carta. Master charga.

That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.