Charles Oakley Quotes

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

We look forward to the necessity of coercion …

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

The power cannot be delegated.

The gold coin is spent.

Necessity, the tyrant's plea.

Some call it power; I prefer to call it responsibility.

Those who can, must obey.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

We will just have to tell the House that they will have to accept our judgment and we cannot answer a great many questions that might be asked

There never was a government without force.... A governement leaving it to a man to do his duty, or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.