Quotes About Power

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

I am fighting to stop the corruption in Washington that was created by Mitch McConnell.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.

It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.

There's corruption in many parts of the world.

I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.

And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of this office be maximized to stop corruption at the national level.

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.

To be sure, the Trump administration is shot through with corruption.

Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily disentangled.

Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption.

Now, admittedly, my power of concentration is and always has been extraordinary since my army training! In fact, other people say it is legendary and almost cosmic!

Belief and trust in the power of the Cosmos gives even the most chaotic life a new sense of order and purpose.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

You can't count on things happening if you're not in control of them happening.

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.