All political power is a trust.

I never had a political power base.

To limit money is to limit political power.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

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

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power.

When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the size of the state.

High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

It is to the advantage of Hispanics not to be taken for granted by one party and ignored by the other. Hispanics will realize their political power only if courted and engaged by both sides.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

Voting for Trump will either hasten the return of Jesus, according to evangelical belief, or to allow evangelicals to regain political power in the White House. Either way, it is a win-win situation.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.

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