Rick Santorum Quotes

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Politics is the art of dominating men.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The way to have power is to take it.

I'm interested in power.

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

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

All [political] parties, without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

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

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

I'm not a kingmaker.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.