Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
I always found that Trump had this power about him.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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.