Gennifer Flowers Quotes

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

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Under every stone lurks a politician

The hazards of politics come not from campaigns and elections, as might be supposed, but rather from the nature of the creature that engages in politics. Ambition, love, jealousy, hate and the many emotions and reactions man is heir to frequently affect the course of nation and world more than principles or circumstances or events.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

By exploiting envy and fear, politicians can portray themselves as the saviors and protectors of the public — doing and saying whatever is necessary to gain the support needed to remain in power.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

Would the Benjamin Netanyahu of the eve of the election want me to get hurt? Regretfully, I would say so.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

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

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.