Quotes About Power

The E.U. needs Britain more than Britain needs the E.U. The London Stock Exchange is one of the most powerful financial centers in the world. Frankfurt will never replace it.

I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

The cars need to be louder so it goes through your skin and your stomach, like it used to be - and we need a bit more speed.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

My personal medicine bundle is my backpack that I have at the top of the course. Each person's medicine bundle is different and sacred and not to be spoken of. I have some goodies in my bundle. And my power stone is a quartz crystal that I love and wear almost every day.

When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

I am the future of strength as I am King of the Stones!

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

It was the British who defined religion to divide and rule. That is what created the heat. That is what created the cut. Partition happened because of the rulers, fueled by a few powerful families on both sides who stood to gain. It is the politicians that keep everyone fighting.

It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.