Catherine the Great Quotes

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

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

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

A political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

All political power is a trust.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

If you cannot trust our leaders, you cannot govern.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

You need a head of state--with continuity. Sometimes this is more important than political power.

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

Resolved-1st, That the People are the source of all legitimate power; and, That We are the People.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

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

Most history books are about power.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump, you know what I'm saying? Than literally anybody that works in politics.

If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.