Quotes About Power

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The world is governed by opinion.

There is no gambling like politics.

Politics is applesauce.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Everything is politics.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

The extent to which lawyers and judges are interfering in politics is something that concerns many people.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

Nothing comes easy in life, but politics is incredibly difficult.

Politics ruins the character.