Quotes About Power

I've always wanted to be the strongest in my school, in my class, everywhere. I don't care if I'm in year seven, I wanted to be the strongest in the school.

Everybody is looking for that chiseled guy. Just because they have a lot of muscles, they think he's the strongest guy out there, this and that. Lucky for me, the skills pay the bills.

Your butt and back are two of the strongest parts of your body.

My driver is my strongest club - it's what my game kind of revolves around.

Those Olympic lifters - how can you call someone the strongest man if he can't walk over to a car and pick it up?

I have a strong arm. I wouldn't say strongest in world but it's stronger than a lot of guys and I'm not afraid to say it.

You look at the body types of some of the strongest people in the world, they're compact. They can move their body weight because there's not as much distance to go.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.

I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

I believe strongly that when you have political capital, you should use it in a manner that helps improve the human condition. You shouldn't just compile power and hold onto power for power's sake.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

I am not the only scientist to be struck by the power and meaning of Lamium album in bloom.

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

I started reading about media moguls in general, and Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch both made the same joke: they both were asked, 'What will happen when you die?' and they both said they didn't plan to die. It just struck me: what's going on with these men in their 80s and 90s who are still packing their diaries every day?

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.