The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.

All political power is a trust.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.