What Is Power Quotes

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

We will do everything in our power to protect our allies, South Korea and Japan, including installing even more missile defense.

As president, I'll set bold goals to combat climate change: generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years and slash carbon pollution at home and around the world.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

I believe in delegating power.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.

Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.

Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies.

With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

You have the power to pursue your own dreams.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

You have the power to take our country back.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power.

He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.

We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.

I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth

To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.