Carla Hills Quotes

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

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

I'm not a Washington person.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

When I left government, it appeared I could get some rather unusual things done from the inside.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

Government runs by clout. That's how it runs, by clout.

I don’t know how to do what you have to do to get something out of a congressman.

I have several times suggested that what I call the “Establishment” in this country is today more powerful than ever before. By “Establishment” I do not mean only the centers of official power – though they are certainly part of it – but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised ... the “Establishment” can be seen at work in the activities of, not only the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earl Marshal, but of such lesser mortals as the Chairman of the Arts Council, the Director-General of the BBC, and even the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, not to mention dignitaries like Lady Violet Bonham Carter.

Power in Washington is simply the perception of power.

It’s good to have a good friend in power.

Members of Congress don’t want anyone to have more influence than they have—that’s why they hated Harry Hopkins.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

When you come down to the short strokes in Washington DC, you have to have power.

At home when people go to lawmakers and induce them with trips and gifts and so on to pass legislation, it's called corruption. But in the U.S. it's actually a profession called lobbying!

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

It's in the nature of the Presidency that most of the people youy meet want something.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

Leadership is important in politics.