Lucy Powell Quotes

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

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

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

To be a party you have to have a national message.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, masses about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive men [i.e. governments], and the men who succumb to their own motive forces.

For 22 years [as a Senator] I worried about all the power at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Now [as Treasury Secretary] I worry about all the power at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

The right kind of leader for the Labour party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Why Great Men Are Not Chosen President

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

it does not make any difference whether it were the Republican or Democratic Party. It is the business of the party in power to face the American Nation, stand responsible for the conduct of its administration, and to give the people of this Nation a prosecution in this case that will restore the confidence of the people not in the party in power merely, or any party, but in their Government, in the integrity of their public officials.

All governments must maintain power by consent. Not by coercion.