7 Quotes filtered by Power
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
William Pitt 09/01/1770
Category: Power
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
H H Asquith
Category: Power
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
Anthony Eden
Category: Power
I never put the phone down without getting a little high. I have never been a junkie so it is wrong to pinch their language. It's not main-lining, just taking little snorts. It's the interplay between power and vanity.
Alan Clark
On power
Category: Power
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.
Bob Beckel 30/03/1995
On Term Limits
Category: Politicians (as a species), Power
