It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
