Seneca the Younger Quotes

Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

[Political] Victory is all that matters.

Politicians respect a lot of things, but nothing so much as success.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

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

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

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

A great politician has great charisma.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I think political people are afraid of me.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.