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Quotes About Power

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
~ Ralph Nader
God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.
~ Chinua Achebe
Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
~ Will Rogers
Donald Trump turned politics on its head.
~ Paul Ryan
Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
~ Wendell Phillips
He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.
~ Dennis Rodman
...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy
~ Dick Morris
In politics, victory is never total.
~ Donald Freed
I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
~ Sam Wyly
Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media.
~ Donald Trump
Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.
~ Edith Pearlman
My morals went when the president got oral.
~ Eminem
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
~ Thomas Sowell
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
~ Ellen Glasgow
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.
~ Francois Hollande
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.
~ Frank Dane
We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.
~ Frans de Waal
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.
~ Emma Goldman
Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
~ Gary Holder-Winfield