Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage. – Jeff Greenfield
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. – James F. Cooper
China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power. – Iqbal Quadir
We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. – Jeb Bush
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. – John Ortberg
The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham
I don’t understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power. – Jacques Villeneuve
I’m not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I’m not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It’s like a club. We are not asking the tough questions. – Jorge Ramos
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. – Irving Babbitt
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we’re always lacking something. – Junot Diaz
I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I’ve obviously chosen my coach, my costumes – all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. – Johnny Weir
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. – Jon Meacham
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it. – John Quincy Adams
The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst. – Jeh Johnson
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. – Ignatius of Antioch
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world. – James McGreevey
Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States. – Joe Lieberman
What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them. – Hermann von Helmholtz
I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves. – John C. Calhoun
Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power. – Iqbal Quadir
F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists – and outright racists – who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed. – Jeff Greenfield
I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I’ve seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power. – Jacqueline Novogratz
When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it. – Joyce Meyer
I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you. – Isobelle Carmody
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. – John Piper
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. – John Kenneth Galbraith
