Quotes About Control

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

Who watches the watchmen?

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.