Quotes About Power

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.