Political power is good but political power can not survive without good economic power, political power is irrelevance if there is no good economy situations of any firm. It takes the economic power to build every other aspects of life.
Politicians will say it differently. This is because they know the political controls the economic. A man who pays the piper calls the tune. Politicians know all that. We've billionaires struggling to get into top political positions for the sole aim of controlling the affairs of government in policy making. Whatever political decision a president embarks on is binding on the economy.