Quotes About Power

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

In poker, position is power. When you've got position, play more hands and apply more pressure before the flop.

Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of heart.

Poland not only has a capable military but also is strong economically and does not need money being raised for it.

Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and occupied by the Nazis and the Russians... We pop up and disappear and we do not trust what we are told to believe.

That is our dilemma in Poland. We don't like to be ruled by the East.

I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Police are the enforcers of America's agenda.

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

When you show a corrupt police officer in a film, you don't mean that all policemen are corrupt. You just point to the fact that there is corruption in the system.

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

I've had guns pointed at me by police officers.

I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.