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Quotes About Power

America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait.
~ Katt Williams
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
~ Agnes Varda
There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
~ Bill Bailey
I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.
~ Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
~ Martin Luther
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
~ Eric Hoffer
We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
~ Robin Williams
The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.
~ Napoleon Hill
You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.
~ Henny Youngman
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.
~ Terry Pratchett
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
~ Robin Williams
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.
~ Taki Theodoracopulos
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
~ George W. Bush
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
~ Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
~ Brian Jacques, Redwall
Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
~ Jim Butcher
I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.
~ Steven Brust, Tiassa
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
~ Emo Philips
Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.
~ Dennis Miller
I don't need a president with a bucket list!
~ Chris Rock
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary
~ Sarah MacLean, The Season