Quotes About Power

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

I enjoy the hero genre more than anything else. I enjoy origin stories. I enjoy doing stories about people who learn what they are capable of.

Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

Experience in other countries shows how big money, rather than the best political candidate, can influence politics.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power and wealth and standing, was able to enslave others. Don't torget, mankind has had wars where we sent armies to enslave other countries; history is full of slavery.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

I always say if you can't knock someone out with four ounce gloves on there is something wrong with you.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.