Paul Bremer Quotes

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

I believe in power.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Power, not reason, is the new currency of this court's decision making

Power must be strong.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than an hundred against it

When it comes to power, we know I got power, and we know I can wrestle.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

Power is paradoxical.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.