Quotes About Power

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

I know why Superman left Krypton. Earth was the only place he could get steroids!

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Nature, our father and mother, gave us all we have got. The state, our elder brother, swipes the lot.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.