Quotes About Control

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.