Quotes about Power
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
— Ronald Reagan
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
— Will Rogers
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
— Al Gore
Be a politician; no training necessary.
— Will Rogers
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
— Ellen Glasgow
I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.
— George Clooney
The political is personal.
— Gloria Steinem
Religion is often politics made sacred.
— Gloria Steinem
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
— Will Rogers
The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
— Victor Hugo