Kind Quote by Zeynep Tufekci

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

— Tony Abbott

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People power. It has no limits.

— Vitali Klitschko

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

— Mark Shields

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

— Mark Shields

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

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.

— Newt Gingrich

Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs is a…

— Pramila Jayapal

When you're elected to congress, they tell you that you're going to spend 4-hours a day talking to rich people to get more money…

— Jimmy Dore

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a…

— Bernard Arnault

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

— Carl Sagan