Economic Quote by Jose Saramago

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

— Michael Pare

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Politics is activity in relation to power

— Francis Parker Yockey

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

— Richard J. Needham

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised…

— Ayn Rand

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in…

— John Adams

I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in…

— Michel Foucault

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of…

— Leland Stanford

Money is economic power.

— Walter Bagehot

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

— Shirley Chisholm