Quotes About Power

The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

There's nothing as real as money.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

There's sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That's where the money is.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.