Quotes About Power

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.