Quotes About Power

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.

The governments that were in power before Naftali Bennett and I went into politics, before the Jewish Home party gained strength, were right-wing governments that carried on with the policies of the left.

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

To describe 'Mutually Assured Destruction' as an 'insurance policy' would be comical if it wasn't such an appalling concept.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.

That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.

Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

I'm capable of doing what no one else has done before because I am Jan Blachowicz and have the legendary Polish power.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

Till Lindemann

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.

There's nothing more political than fantasy.

Architecture is always political.

Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.