Power Quotes

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

Given Ivan's size and power, we must remain vigilant.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.