Quotes About Power

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

The Dodge Charger in the late '70s at Daytona, that looked like an awesome car.

William Mulholland

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

The beast is not dead.

If you don't control the ball, you're dead.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Life shouldn't be about arbitrary power, for power's sake, but about respect, mutuality, decency.

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.

If you're an adult, if you are eligible to be drafted and vote, then there's a certain amount of decision-making power, and I think we have to be respectful of that.

What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.