Power Quotes

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

~ Arthur Henderson

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

~ Fareed Zakaria

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

~ Zygmunt Bauman

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

~ Charles De Secondat

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

~ Joan Kirner

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

~ Ted Cruz

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'

~ Jay-Z

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

~ John Ortberg

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

~ Douglas Brunt

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

~ Morgan Fairchild

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.

~ Lee Kun-Hee

I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

~ Poppy Delevingne

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

~ Abby Wambach

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

~ James Hansen

As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.

~ Shiv Nadar

Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.

~ Klaus Schwab

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

~ Michel Foucault

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

~ Ken Liu

The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

~ Megan Smith

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

~ Julius Genachowski

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

~ Bing Gordon

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

~ Renee James

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.

~ Megyn Kelly

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

~ Andrew Jackson

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

~ Buenaventura Durruti

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

~ Dennis Cardoza

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

~ Franklin Pierce

Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

~ Bob Barr

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

~ Barack Obama

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

~ Sheikh Hasina

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

~ John Podhoretz

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

~ David Mamet

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

~ Eliot Spitzer

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

~ Joseph J. Lhota

Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.

~ Marine Le Pen

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

~ Paul Wellstone

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

~ Penelope Spheeris