Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.
There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.
I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.
I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
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.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
