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Quotes About Power

Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.
~ Robin Wasserman
Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.
~ Rockne S. O'Bannon
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
~ Rollo May
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.
~ Ron Paul
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.
~ Ron Paul
I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"
~ Roseanne Barr
Knowledge is power as well as fame.
~ Rufus Choate
Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.
~ RuPaul
We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.
~ Rush Limbaugh
When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Destabilization and turmoil,[Steven] Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.
~ Rush Limbaugh
If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Liberals never, ever should be back in power. Never.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.
~ Russell Baker
A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."
~ Russell L. Ackoff
I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.
~ Ryan Hall
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
~ Salman Rushdie
Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.
~ Sam Branson
I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.
~ Sam Brownback
When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.
~ Sam Rasoul
[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.
~ Sam Smith
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.
~ Samuel Adams