Quotes About Power

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Democracy is the best revenge.

Politics is a blood sport.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Politics is downstream from culture.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

There are no true friends in politics.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.