Quotes About Influence

When I was little, I was obsessed with Roland Rat. I also loved Danger Mouse. Later on, when I got a bit older, I was obsessed with Ren & Stimpy, but Roland Rat and Danger Mouse, they were my guys. They were my team.

I really love what Chuck Berry did with Christmas music, and also the Rat Pack Christmas stuff, which I listened to all through my childhood.

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

Bristol is known for having quite a good success rate of music - Massive Attack and Portishead, that drum and bass, dance music scene. I never listened to that stuff when I was a kid, but my parents did, and my parents knew some of those people.

In cinema, I would not really rate my costar and I would not pick a project because of the costar. I would pick a project because of the director. And the script.

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.

Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Rather than politics of 'love jihad,' why shouldn't the concept of Love Jihad be applicable in politics?

My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.

I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Trump might think that Fox needs his star power, and on the margins it's true that Trump appearances and interviews are right-wing ratings boosters. But the network was No. 1 long before he became a politician.