Power Grab Quotes

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

It was a transition of power, not by the ballot box…. The people who lost the election are now in power. The people who won the election are now in jail.

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

Theodore Roosevelt is following the footsteps of Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte, and unless we stop him it will be but a question of time when he usurps a dictatorship of the American people.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Leadership and power vacuums will be filled.

The way to have power is to take it.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler’s plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore’s enemy, the U.N.’s enemy: global warming.

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.

Redistricting has always taken place behind closed doors, with zero public input

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. This is a catastrophe - it a mockery of the revolution that brought him to power and an act that leads one to fear the worst.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

The extremists took over the primary process.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

I declare the last election to be illegal …. And I am assuming the presidency.

The New Labour political elite has long conspired to secure a so-called 'smooth transition' for Blair's successor. This would amount to little more than the imposition of a leader on the party and our supporters without any real democratic participation.