Quotes About Power

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Yes, and you should question your government.

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.