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The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

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

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Power is the ability to get things done.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

The way to have power is to take it.