Jesse Helms Quotes

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

I work my angles and things like that.

One thing I am is a leader and if I'm not allowed to lead, then I have to follow. So then I want to be the best follower that I can.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.