Quotes About Power

Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.

For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.

To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.

I'm not saying anyone should go to nuclear war with Russia. What we should do is contain them and show them that there are consequences if they do terrible things, which is what sanctions are all about.

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.

It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

I will be personally seeking alternatives for my family's health care coverage, just like the rest of Americans affected by Obamacare. In the meantime, I will do everything in my power to fight this terrible piece of legislation.

Those who know the least obey the best.

When you feel like it's too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

I would not like a king who could obey.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.

America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.