Jim DeMint Quotes

I like power and I like to use it.

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

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

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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 don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.

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.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

I'm interested in power.

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

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'

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

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Politics is the art of dominating men.

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

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

In the struggle for power, propaganda is an instrument to be used by those who want to secure or retain power just as much as it is by those wanting to displace them.