Quotes About Power

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

In politics, there are no friends.

American politics is always an open competition.

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

DMK's arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

There is no war between Muslims and Americans. There is no war between Americans and the poor people in the world. There is only a war between people on the top who have their own agenda.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

My goal is to show the intermingling between politics and pop culture.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.