Quotes About Power

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Money always talks louder than morality.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

I give money to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them and they are there for me.

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

Let me tell you, it's a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

It's funny how money change a situation.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.