Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

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

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

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

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Sometimes 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.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.