Quotes About Influence

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Life was simple and the credit goes to my parents. They decided to bring us up in a certain way and kept us away from public eye. I am doing the same with my children.

I grew up in the public eye from the age of 15 and it wasn't a choice I made, it just kind of got imposed on me because of who my dad is.

The way we function in society - it doesn't make sense sometimes because it's all based on how you look and then how badly you should feel after you eat the food we just advertised. And then when someone in the public eye goes up or down, it's like a major moment.

We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

I don't know if I ever really think about being a role model. But I guess if you're in the public eye and people are looking at what you do, you do want to be a good role model, and you want to kind of be seen in a good light.

As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger kids that are watching and emulating what you do.

I think it's always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It's the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.

I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.

With any minority group, it takes a strong presence in the public eye to make a change because everything nowadays is social media.

I'm in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that's what acting's all about.

The scary thing is how quickly everyone's star fades. Therefore, to be a voice, you need to do television. You need to stay in the public eye for the public to care about you, to be a big enough voice to help where it is needed.

It's a strange kind of responsibility being in the public eye and having people who follow you and admire you.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Hillary Clinton's progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.

Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.