It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say 'Can he name a kitten?'

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do especially in Philadelphia in 1787 four months they argued about what a House should be what a Senate should be the power of the president the Congress the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong wrong will generally be done.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he if he had the power would be justified in silencing mankind.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy without pollution or global warming.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.