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The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

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

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

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.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

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

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

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.