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Quotes About Power

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!
~ Muhammad Ali
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
~ Mark Twain
I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.
~ George W. Bush
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
~ Carroll O'Connor
Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.
~ Bob Hope
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
~ Robert Metcalfe
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
~ Frank Dane
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
~ Gerald Priestland
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
~ Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.
~ Dave Barry
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.
~ Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.
~ Unknown
If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!
~ Eddie Izzard
It's harder to be funny from the position of power.
~ George Carlin
The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.
~ George W. Bush
Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.
~ Jerry Coleman
He can be lethal death.
~ Jerry Coleman
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.
~ John Green
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.
~ Jonathan Lynn
The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
~ P. J. O'Rourke