I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

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.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

How can a president not be an actor?

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

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

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

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.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

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

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

A 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.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Power 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.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The 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.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.