Quotes About Power

Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation? Of course not, you fool, said Jimmy. This is politics.

Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

A police uniform, he was warned by the commander on his first day on parade, could change a person's personality, and not always for the better.

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Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation?' 'Of course not, you fool,' said Jimmy. 'This is politics.

Harry would have laughed if he hadn't been sitting in No.lO Downing Street opposite one of the busiest men in the country.

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deal with all four of them in one masterful stroke. Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was

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Rockefeller had had his own private station built fifty feet below the Waldorf-Astoria to save him traveling the eight blocks to Grand Central

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politics is nothing more than a rich man's hobby.

Ideas smack of rebellion and rebellions must be put down.

I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living

My dearest mother, I have done everything in my power to make sure you receive this letter before anyone can tell you that I died at sea. As the date on this letter shows, I did not perish when

Women are naturally superior to men, and Mrs Consuela Rosenheim was no exception.

One day,' he promised the ceiling, 'I am going to buy your goddamn bank and make you want to jump out of a hotel bedroom on the twelfth floor.

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Giles entered the Privy Council office on Whitehall so he could avoid the scrum of Fleet Street hacks waiting for him in Downing Street, or at least those who didn't know about the back door en- trance to No.IO.

four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.