Ogden Nash Quotes

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.

Everybody in Washington works for me.

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

How can I talk to a fellow [Woodrow Wilson] who thinks himself the first man in two thousand years to know anything about peace on earth?

[Douglas] MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

… the imaginations of men are exceedingly prone to deify and worship them [kings]; though, to the great misfortune of mankind, they are more commonly fiends, than angels.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

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

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.

I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?