Quotes About Power

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

When you play a cop, it's a different feeling altogether.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.

If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.

I'm not backed by the super PACs and the big corporations.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.

Democrats, more often than not, do not play the game of politics correctly.

You are not electing your parliamentarian or your MP to the corridors of power. You are electing them to the corridors of responsibility.

Our government is corrupt.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

In a way, I think the whole business is pretty corrupt. It's like anything else where people make a lot of money - it's really hard for the little guy.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.