Quote

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.