Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawThe President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
Herbert HooverThe President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan QuayleI have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Charlie ChaplinPower is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret ThatcherPower is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma GandhiNobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice WalkerI’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
Michelle Obama‚Discworld‘ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.
Terry PratchettA friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry AdamsI had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
Hunter S. ThompsonI can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.
Joe BidenWhat is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich NietzscheI repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin DisraeliThe other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan QuayleThe more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin DisraeliHuman greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne FrankSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas JeffersonWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas CarlyleThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinPower is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.
Robert GreeneThe momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. BushWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George OrwellA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerSmiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
Billie EilishWhether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. RowlingThe sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander HamiltonMan, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon HillAlways there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthurPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John SteinbeckGo not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TolkienNixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
Hunter S. ThompsonMy relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson MandelaWords are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul SartreI believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
Jimmy CarterArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George WashingtonIt is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
J. R. R. TolkienThis is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. LewisPower is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon BonaparteWherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James MadisonIf anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
John F. KennedyWhat this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham BellI’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
Jimmy CarterAs president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
Barack ObamaThaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David ThoreauYou don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.
Abby Lee MillerAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham LincolnMuch that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand RussellOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia WoolfWhoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. JohnsonKindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel JohnsonHe chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.
Russell M. NelsonEvery election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. MenckenI’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.
George H. W. BushThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonThe American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
Richard M. NixonOnce elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
Pope FrancisBarack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
J. Cole