Power is the great aphrodisiac.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Leadership is influence.

My 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.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least – at a minimum – I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively – presumptuous to say – relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Human 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.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Power is competence.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

The 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.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?