Quotes About Influence

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook get to decide whether or not you get pertinent information about national security issues in your country.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.

Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.

Peter Kaplan was a giant.

Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.

I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

Peter Jones is hot.

Oh yeah, I love Peter Gabriel's stuff. I mean, I even have the Genesis records. He's incredible.

I loved Peter Sellers whenever he played an Indian.