James Madison Quotes

I like power and I like to use it.

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

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.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

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

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

You want power because it's an opportunity.

His essence was force ... the relish of power, and command.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

It is not a mistake to want power.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.

I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.

I'm dominant positionally, and my hands got power.

When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit.

I had no great love for the trappings of power.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.