Effects Quote by Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

— Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards;…

— Henry Adams

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“Presidents rise and fall according to how they handle a crisis - an invasion, a depression, a massive oil spill - but there's no…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its…

— John Taylor of Caroline

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an…

— Oriana Fallaci

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

“No one can imagine the kind of pressure being president of the U.S. imposes on an individual and how easily a president can be…

— Ronald Kessler

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

— Trey Gowdy

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

— Michael Parenti

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

— Edward Snowden

“Americans expect the president to right the wrongs that plague us—and we blame him when he fails. Because we invest impossible expectations in the…

— Gene Healy