Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

Everybody in Washington works for me.

I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump, you know what I'm saying? Than literally anybody that works in politics.

You know, when you get the White House operator and they say, 'Just a moment for the president of the United States,' that's a pretty heady moment.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

The president has a big stick.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I think political people are afraid of me.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

I think, people who remain in the political sphere as opposed to going into the private sector, really what they're looking at is how in some ways the compensation is power. How do you place a price tag on the ability to affect millions of people's lives? How do you place a price tag on the ability to determine the rules by which all of us play?

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

Every senator sees a president when he looks in the mirror each morning.

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

President [William Howard] Taft is an amiable man, completely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

When you come down to the short strokes in Washington DC, you have to have power.

I’ve seen the lions of industry become lambs when they come into the Oval Office

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.