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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

Power is the ability to get things done.

The way to have power is to take it.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.