Quotes About Power

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

The more we allow Republicans to concentrate the lion's share of wealth in the hands of a few, the more power these wealthy few will have. And they will use this power to continue rewriting the rules of both our economy and our political system in their favor.

Betty Sutton and I will make it a point to put state government back on the side of the middle class, not the wealthy and well-connected who have run the show at the statehouse for far too long.

I don't think most people are aware of the exotic and extreme tools at the disposal of the most powerful and wealthy men of America when they are bent at silencing accusations against them.

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole.

The fight is over two fundamentally different ideas about the nature of America. On one side are those who believe that that every hardworking person should be able to rise. On the other are those who believe that wealthy white men should always rule over a permanent class of workers.

The government is more responsive to wealthy communities than poor communities, and to wealthy people than poor people.

In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to run the country as they see fit.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.