Power Quotes

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to b

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

We played for power and impact.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.