Quotes About Power

We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.

In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

LeBron is LeBron. They're not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.

A lot of people who are in charge in Hollywood are women, so they have the power. Now, I've met a lot of these amazing women who are offering opportunities to other women, and they're awesome. But for the women who maybe haven't done that yet, it's like, why?

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

When you go to the mayor's office and you want something done, then that person should have the authority to do it for you. And if the person can't do it for you, then you should have the ability to hold that person responsible.

The office of the president is meant to confer dignity.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

I truly am of the belief that I should be nominated and elected 'Emperor of North America' and given a shot at being ruler of the universe, and I haven't had the chance to craft my campaigns for these offices yet because I've been very busy with Brock Lesnar.

Even though I was there through it all, it is hard for me to comprehend that I was growing up with brothers who would eventually occupy the highest offices of our nation, including president of the United States.

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.