Erma Bombeck Quotes

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Power educates the potentate.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

I like power and I like to use it.

The way to have power is to take it.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

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

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

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

I believe in power.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

Hegemony mean[t] that [Athens] organized and directed their combined efforts without securing permanent political power over the other[s].

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