Kenneth Neil Cukier Quotes

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

What rules the world is ideas.

To an imagination of any scope the most far-reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Leadership is influence.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

You do not need to be in a position of power. You need only be in a position to influence those in power.

It all boils down to power and money.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

You want power because it's an opportunity.

Political ambition, like other kinds of ambition, is a basic human appetite …. Like other human appetites, ambition is not evenly distributed among the population, but enough people with substantial political ambition are naturally drawn to political careers to make the problem of controlling it a major aspect of constitutional government.

Leaders get people to do what they otherwise wouldn’t do.