Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

I am Vice President. I am nothing but I may be everything.

Political ambition, like other kinds of ambition, is a basic human appetite …. Like other human appetites, ambition is not evenly distributed among the population, but enough people with substantial political ambition are naturally drawn to political careers to make the problem of controlling it a major aspect of constitutional government.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

Anybody having a chance to become President usually tries to do so.

If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

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.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.