Quotes About Power

Gaslighting only goes so far. This is a lesson many a politician has learned the hard way.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Politicians are the same everywhere.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

It is only in our country that you see that not just invaders but politicians have robbed us, too.

I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them.

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.

I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them.