Edwin Meese Quotes

My God. What is there about this place [the White House] that a man should ever want to get into it?

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

I've been very successful in business and I owe it all to politics.

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

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

I think political people are afraid of me.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

When I left government, it appeared I could get some rather unusual things done from the inside.

Members of Congress don’t want anyone to have more influence than they have—that’s why they hated Harry Hopkins.

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

It's in the nature of the Presidency that most of the people youy meet want something.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

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

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

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

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.