Quotes About Power

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Consumers are what's going to change the world, not necessarily industries or governments,

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

In every area of politics, the goal is control.

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.