Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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Power is the ability to get things done.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Politics is activity in relation to 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.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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 not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
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.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
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