Position of Power 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.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.

About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

Power always works from the corner office.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

I want to use but not misuse my position as President of the General Assembly.

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

In the new world every position of power evacuated by an arrested and beheaded pedophile or bankster will be filled with a grandmother who has pledged to create heaven on earth for all children, animal and humans with the stolen money we have recovered.

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.