Quotes About Power

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Usually if you're a woman in Trump's bedroom, the only document you need is a nondisclosure agreement.

Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

I think that over time, China believes that it - it - it can be and should be and will be the dominant country in the world.

I worry Mr. Trump believes he's special just because he's Mr. Trump and that the rules don't apply to him and the people around him.

With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Ronda knows what's like to have this belt, she knows the power this belt has.

Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging itself.

Although I'd ascended hundreds of mountains, Everest was so different from anything I'd previously climbed that my powers of imagination were insufficient for the task. The summit looked so cold, so high, so impossibly far away. I felt as though I might as well be on an expedition to the moon.

A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. —

Using his gift for fundamentalist rhetoric and adroitly manipulating the religious indoctrination Elizabeth had received since she was old enough to talk, Mitchell cowed the girl into becoming an utterly submissive polygamous concubine—buttressing his powers of theological persuasion with threats to kill her and her family.

The essential principle of Mormonism is not polygamy at all, but the ambition of an ecclesiastical hierarchy to wield sovereignty; to rule the souls and lives of its subjects with absolute authority, unrestrained by any civil power.

For Satan was the founder of this black race, for he came to Cain after God had taken away his power to procreate the children of righteousness, and showed him how he could place his seed into animals, and the seed of animals into other animals, for he did corrupt the seed of the earth in this manner, hoping to thwart the works of God.

President George W. Bush, who believes he is an instrument of God and characterizes international relations as a biblical clash between forces of good and evil.

It did not speak well of the power of God, in other words, if He needed a human government to prop him up.

Arguing for black enfranchisement in 1867, Frederick Douglass said: "If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks. The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations.

In the charged and complicated spheres of identity, politics, philosophy, and power in America, though, racism was not situational but systemic.

I believe after a series of years that no government that has the power to collect taxes and declare war, can be restrained but by a display of sufficient power to break it up," Pickens said.

Madison described the state of play well in May 1798: "The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views.…22 Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad." Extreme measures

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.