Quotes About Power

Trump has shown that there are limits to how brutal the maximalists can afford to be.

I've seen the police brutality.

This is football and what matters is brute strength.

Life inside the Beltway bubble dulls your thinking.

Cecil B. DeMille worshipped the almighty buck.

I'm after the bucks because bucks give you the power, power gives you the freedom, and freedom lets you send money home to your mother.

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

Manchester City is the richest club in the world. They work to a budget that no one else works to, so they can write their own rules.

I want to build an empire.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

I'm not going to be bullied by Facebook.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

Make no mistake: you're going to see a lot of Bushes.

Until Donald Trump got to where he was, they said you'll never see a rich businessman who's never been in politics be president. I clearly was wrong about that.

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

The U.S. has always sought to sow intrigue against Iran but has never succeeded in the face of Iran's greatness.

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.