Quotes About Power

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

There is no power without justice.

Politics has become entertainment.

Economics is really politics in disguise.