Quotes About Control

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.

Too much of power has got concentrated in the hands of the Central and state governments.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

I think the thing that I learned is I will never let a staff have too much control again, which is a strong statement.

I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

The States is run by the Federal Reserve, an institution that answers only to itself and to a few large banks. It's modelled on the Bank of England. Ben Franklin said that one of the main reasons America revolted was to get away from the Bank of England, the mother of all central banks - the most pernicious and insidious of all.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time.

Consolidation is so overwhelming. Someone who has one or two stations doesn't have much clout.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

I like to be funny. I can't stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.

Stay small and control it yourself.

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.