Power Play Quotes

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue peace ... Don't ever defend. Always attack.

The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you don’t think.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

Common sense is no match for political opportunism.

[Politics is a] war of all against all … a quest for power after power that ceaseth only in death.

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Everything is politics.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Divide and conquer. Get your adversaries fighting among themselves

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

We will stand by Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiat, unlike Parkash Singh Badal, who makes Chandigarh, river waters and other emotive issues his bread and butter during the elections.

I love the one who punishes me well.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

I like the feeling of being dominated

Politics, so far as mobilizing support is concerned, represents the art of calculated cheating, or more precisely how to cheat without being really caught

In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.