Quotes About Power

The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.

A great presidential address - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Truman's Farewell Address, Kennedy's Inaugural Address - has the power to inspire.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social experiment.

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by an act of Congress or a court.

I don't doubt that there are many presidential acts that would constitute obstructions of justice if anyone but the president engaged in them but which constitute legitimate exercises of presidential power when the president engages in them.

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab.

Midterm elections, by nature, just aren't about the party that's out of power. But presidential years are different.

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

All presidents get frustrated with Congress.

Elected presidents are for countries.

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

Do you notice that all presidents have a dog? There is always a First Dog. Or two or three. You have to have a dog to be president, I guess.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

America can change its presidents, but the world doesn't change.

I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.

It feels that while the young people are trying to fight for a world where there's equality, everyone's the same, everyone's helping each other, we want to take care of the planet... it seems like the people that are ruling and are being presidents right now want to do it the other way round.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

The press is the enemy.