Quotes About Influence

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

Barack Obama's journey to the White House has impressed and inspired the entire world.

Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.

I appreciate the power of a White House bully pulpit - but kids listen and learn primarily from other kids. If your son's friend tells him that the apple is better than the fries, he's more likely to listen.

I remember having lunch with a friend who worked at the White House. I'd just graduated from law school but kept telling my friend what they needed to do and weren't doing right about the Iran-Contra affair. The next day, I got a call from the White House, offering me a job.

To political technocrats, 2008 marks the maturation of 'microtargeting' - a technique that, if things are as close in November as expected, may well affect who takes the White House.

Twitter provides a platform that allows anyone on the planet - from a political activist in the Middle East to an intemperate golfer in the White House - to broadcast his or her thoughts.

I certainly hope that we can all continue to be forces for good after leaving the White House.

They were totally uplifting my work and gave me a platform, and now I have an ongoing relationship with the White House. We're working on some very, very, very big things for the trans community.

The White House isn't the only platform with a voice. ABC has a pretty big voice, too.

It was important for me to join the White House because as I looked around Trump's inner circle and campaign, there were not a lot of African-Americans, particularly African-American women, uniquely positioned to serve as a member of the senior staff, to serve as an assistant to the president.

People rarely grow in humility once they reach the White House.

I have been opposed to ceremonies at the White House. It gives the impression that the court is subordinate to the executive, which I think is quite wrong.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

Manipulating an election in a small developing country doesn't have the same sort of ripple effect of electing Donald Trump into the White House.

I'm truly a believer that Satan was behind everything that happened in that White House, and now, the Republican party. Anything that is good for the people, they're against it.

A visit to the White House is a coup for any foreign leader, it's a useful weapon of soft power.

For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces a kind of racial hierarchy where whiteness is the privileged position to be in, and ethnicity is problematic.

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.