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.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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.

Wondrous 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.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

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

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

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

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

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

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.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

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.

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

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

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

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

You can only get to a certain point when you feel confident with the simulator and it always changes when you get to the track and you actually drive it for real for the first time.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

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.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

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.

Knowledge is power.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Words are loaded pistols.