Power Ambition Quotes

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

Nobody but God loves him [William Randolph Hearst] and he knows it; and God's love he values only in so far as he fancies that it may promote his amusing ambition to darken the door of the White House.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become part of the great culture, the great church, the great state to which we belong. Our whole politics is stupid, and then HE becomes stupid. Our whole education is ugly. Our politics means nothing but ambition, naked ambition - ambition for power. And only the lowest kind of people become interested in power.

Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.'