Joe Cronin Quotes

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

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Gotta watch out for directors.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

I like power and I like to use it.