Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious...

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

Jeff Goodell

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

Jeff Goodell

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

Jeff Goodell

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

Adam Schiff

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Malcolm X

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Georg Büchner

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Salman Rushdie

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

John Dalberg-Acton

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Michael Bloomberg

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Phaedrus

Any man who must say, "I am the king" is no true king.

George R. R. Martin