Quotes About Power

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.