Quotes About Power

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.