Quotes About Power

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.

Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that would make it possible for your political enemies to win next time. If you think about it, that's almost antithetical to human nature.

I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black skin with the United States Presidency, with power on that level - the idea is that to have a black in that office leading a largely white country would be redemptive for America.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.

Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.

The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.

A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.

'Anthems' was a harsh indictment of American foreign policy; the video for the first single featured an American flag engulfed in a pool of oil, imagery which might have been risque in 2002, but seemed unimaginably passe in the last year of Bush's presidency.

Pena Nieto is a product of the two television networks that groomed him for power and then propelled him to the presidency.

Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.

More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.

Vicente Fox beat the PRI by gambling on a simple formula: Marketing + Money = Presidency.

Trump continues to diminish the office of the Presidency.

There clearly was an Obama administration no-holds-barred attempt to clear the path to the presidency for Hillary Clinton.