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Politics & Power Quote by Sun Myung Moon

"Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years"

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It lands like prophecy, but it’s really a flex: Sun Myung Moon turning American presidential ambition into a future line item on his calendar. The sentence is structurally simple, almost offhand, and that’s the point. By skipping qualifiers and conditions, Moon speaks in the grammar of inevitability. Not “may,” not “might,” not “should,” but “will.” Power, in this framing, isn’t something he petitions; it’s something that, eventually, petitions him.

The intent reads as strategic intimidation and recruitment at once. For followers, it’s reassurance that their leader isn’t fringe but fated to be central. For politicians, it’s a reminder that influence is upstream from elections: money, media, and networks decide who gets oxygen long before votes are cast. Moon built all three. Through the Unification Church’s far-reaching fundraising apparatus, its international business holdings, and high-profile media ventures (including the Washington Times), he positioned himself as a broker in the conservative ecosystem at a moment when the right was consolidating around anti-communism and religious messaging.

The subtext is transactional spirituality: access to moral authority and organizational muscle in exchange for proximity and legitimacy. Moon’s clerical title is crucial here, not as pastoral care but as brand architecture. He’s selling the idea that modern politics, stripped of romance, still needs consecration - and he can provide it. The line also carries a faint threat: if presidents-in-waiting must “come to me,” then dissenting from him isn’t just disagreement; it’s political malpractice.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moon, Sun Myung. (2026, January 16). Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/any-politician-who-wants-to-run-for-president-110329/

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Moon, Sun Myung. "Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/any-politician-who-wants-to-run-for-president-110329/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/any-politician-who-wants-to-run-for-president-110329/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Sun Myung Moon (January 6, 1920 - September 2, 2012) was a Clergyman from Korea.

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