Politics Quote by Henry Kissinger

“Power changes its appearance but not its reality.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”—George Washington.”

— Richard Rudomanski

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

— David Harsanyi

“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.”

— Evan Meekins

“It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the Civil War,…

— Edward S. Greenberg

“Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld,…

— Jonathan Franzen

“never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending…

— Booker T. Washington

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

“Power is an illusion of perception.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

— Joshua Micah Marshall

It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The…

— Noam Chomsky

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

— Felix Frankfurter