Sarah Brady Quotes

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

I think political people are afraid of me.

I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

Our tribunals — unlike those in the United States — have been traditionally subordinated to political power. Mexico has a history of corrupt elections where the will of the people has been subverted by the wealthy and powerful.

Huey Long’s methods outdid the good he did with the results.

Reading Shakespeare we see that power can be poisonous. In the case of Bush and Cheney testosterone can be poisonous.

The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demogogues.

This is a Dick Cheney I do not know.

I'll tell you what: Everything about the Trump administration is scary.

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind.

If Trump becomes president, he wouldn't be afraid to step on toes. And he'll be feared by the world.

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was - not a president, but a blundering cheat.

I find Trump to be like a parasite.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man - he already has all of his sex scandals behind him.