Subramanian Swamy Quotes

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack out of him.

Conkling -- the power behind the throne, superior to the throne.

You are for kings the ears with which they hear, the eyes with which they see, the tongues with which they speak, the hands with which they strike.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Obama's just a puppet - he's a puppet in a chair.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

Power without abuse loses its charm.

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

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

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.