Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

Political battles are won when the rich favor them.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

The occupations must be so allotted and contrived, that we may, in secret, influence all political transactions.

Those most adjacent to the seat of legislation will always possess advantages over others.

No man ever exercised less influence in the Senate or the House of Representatives than he, but no man ever exercised more power as a political leader.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

In Davos during the WEF, we have government heads like David Cameron, Shinzo Abe, Tony Abbott, and Dilma Rousseff. These are the people who can actually get something done.

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.

As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government in the United States have been listening to those contrary voices. And so long as the power to run the world lies in the hands of people who are quite happy to see it get warmer, or fuel be used more, then would those people who oppose it are crying in the wilderness - that's the real problem.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent. You can read their publications. In the 18th century it perhaps made some sense to conjure up the Illuminati and Masons. Not since.