Beau Willimon Quotes

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

Under every stone lurks a politician

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.

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.