#pow

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#capable #counted #create #crisis #days

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#checked #misery #population #power #producing

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#ages #idea #interesting #interesting thing #makes

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#america #approach #badly #degree #dependent

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Chad Michael Murray

#around #because #care #diamond #everything

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#eloquence #power #rare

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position. ↗

— Joe Miller

#bankrupt #being #constitution #decades #disingenuous

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power. ↗

— Billy Mitchell

#bound #development #future #indissolubly #nation

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#leadership #power #quote #service #leadership

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#companies #complete #games #had #i