Power doesn’t have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children’s lives.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.