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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

J. William Fulbright

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

J. William Fulbright

Power

Virtue

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

Klaus Fuchs

Power

Germany

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.