Able Quote by Anthony Eden

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

— John C. Calhoun

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

— Jack McDevitt

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

— Clint Eastwood

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

— Alice Walker

The problem for many people isn't that they lack personal power and discipline. It is that they have already invested it in agreements about…

— Senora Roy

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any.

— Anonymous

All too often our leaders shrink from their responsibilities and choose to do what is politically expedient.

— Jack Schlossberg

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to…

— Matthew Henry

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence…

— Andrew Jackson

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

— Carl Sagan

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power…

— Krystal Ball

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

— Woodrow Wilson