Katherine Dunn Quotes

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

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

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

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

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

I allow the public to believe that I have more influence with the King than I do in reality.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

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

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

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

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

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

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

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.