Quotes About Power

It is a nasty world that only respects bullies.

NEW YORK CITY— —stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law-abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.

Without meaning to, you usually end up with a board made up of the richer members of the congregation.

Fifteen or twenty tired men sitting around a table in a smoke-filled room behind locked doors.

That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.

Alles zal vergeten worden en ten slotte verdwijnen en dan nooit gebeurd zijn. En het is deze gedachte, die hem plotseling de verdorven kracht geef om te doen wat hem te doen staat.

Ik denk dat hij het oog van de cycloon wilde zijn. Rondom wordt alles verwoest door orkanen, maar in het oog is het schitterend weer met een blauwe hemel.

Anton had the feeling that by doing something which was within his power but which he could not quite think of, he could undo everything and return to the way they had been before, sitting around the table playing a game. It was as if he had forgotten a name remebered a hundred times before and now on the tip of his tongue, but the harder he tried to recall it, the more elusive it became.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima…. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make 'em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.