Famous Quotes: Power

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Use this quote  

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.
Use this quote  

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Use this quote  

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
Use this quote  

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Use this quote  

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
Use this quote  

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Use this quote  

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
Use this quote  

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Use this quote  

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Use this quote  

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
Use this quote  

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Use this quote  

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Use this quote  

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Use this quote  

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
Use this quote  

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
Use this quote  

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Use this quote  

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.
Use this quote  

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Use this quote  

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.
Use this quote