Fucking Power

"This shit is pure fucking power." - Robert Caro, huffing the ashes of Robert Moses

"I'm not saying I'm not a monster. I'm just trying to convey what it's like to be one." - Brian Williams, Rock Center

"Fuck the King's Guard, fuck the City, fuck the King." - NYPD Chief Joseph Esposito

"If you want to make an omelette, you have to kill some rich people." - Hugo Chavez yelling at his live-in chef

"Uranium won't bring my father's hatred back to life." - Benjamin Netanyahu

"Yes, yes, drag them all down into the deepening hole!" - John Hurt reading The Times on Charles Taylor and Julian Assange

"It is easier to love your enemy than to love your own kin." -  Michael Bloomberg, hunting wild Arkansas horses with his daughter

"You've already given up, you just don't realize it." - Avigdor Lieberman to a group of Arab-Israeli school children

"Do you know how many people died to make your grandfather rich? His father? His father's father? How many generations were ground under the wheel to make our family strong? Are you going to dishonor their sacrifice?" - Tagg Romney dissuading his children from joining the Peace Corps

"As our generation begins to inherit the earth, we realize too late that those evil people we saw in the news as children weren't going to be there forever, that one day they would cede their spots to the very same people we went to high school and college with, that we had the chance to stop them and we let it slip through our fingers." - Eduardo Saverin at the Asian Premiere of The Amazing Spider-Man 

"This is not an either/or kind of thing. For very practical reasons, violent extremism cannot succeed without a broad base of support. You need safe-houses, supplies, propaganda, professional connections, jail solidarity, pressure on courts for lenient sentencing, pressure on politicians to cede to demands. Similarly, no reform movement can succeed without violent extremists to force the hand of moderates and make them choose who they want to deal with." - David Plouffe to a group of terrified liberal millionaire donors

"You are going to think that you're too good to get your hands dirty. Too good to grasp the reins of power. Too good for hard, boring, unfulfilling, but necessary work.  You're all just waiting for the right girl to come along and ask you out, waiting for the revolution to fall right in your lap, waiting for the people to ask you to lead. Well guess what? They won't. Your 'consciences,' your petty, inflated senses of self-worth, as manifested by your unreasonable expectations of 'meaningful' work, are your own greatest enemies and the greatest threats to progress." - Lewis Lapham, "Decadence," Macalester College commencement speech

"We are the Spanish. You are the Arawaks." - Sergey Brin

"Bo Xilai!" - Chinese gangsters