Sebastian Coe Quotes

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

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

The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.

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

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.

It is well known that being a member of Parliament or holding a ministerial post affords one with political power that protects people from injustice. This power resembles that which was once held by tribal affiliations in the past.

The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence.

History is past politics, and politics present history.

Politics can bring a lot of happiness, but you can also experience a lot of unhappiness.

Whatever is the strongest power in society will obtain the governing authority; and a change in the political constitution cannot be durable unless preceded or accompanied by an altered distribution of power in society itself

Wilbur Mills knows that he was chairman of Ways and Means before I got here and that he'll still be chairman after I've gone—and he knows I know it.

We Republicans came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

Social change … almost inevitably leads to the rise of new political actors demanding a voice and a share of power.

Power does seep away from the President in his second term.

The Congress party is insignificant in our state.

With his gigantic personality, my grandfather burst onto the great political panorama of that era made up only of little men with little ideas.

Netanyahu wants to make me and my party out as small, lame and uninfluential.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.