Quotes About Power

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.

Though we did have a few main characters in 'Avatar' who represented the non-benders of the world, most of the people we focused on were benders. However, benders are the minority in their world population.

There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.