Quotes About Influence

Boyle looked like a Monty Python in drag. Then she opened her mouth and this epic noise came ripping out of her. Within a week, she was the most celebrated person on earth, an

must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. —PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." —

fear is the great motivator, isn't it?

it can obliterate a person's resistance with but a single negative thought.

Fear makes us do things we might never agree to do, doesn't it, my dear?

Television is light filled with someone else's anxiety.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy. (p. 117)

In Peshawar during the 1980s he had been overshadowed by Abdullah Azzam. In Saudi Arabia he was just one rich young sheikh among hundreds. But in Khartoum his wealth made him a rare and commanding figure. He was powerful enough to order men to their deaths. Yet he fashioned himself a lecturer-businessman, an activist theologian in the image of Azzam.

To enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence in Afghanistan during the 1990s, Directorate S covertly supplied, armed, trained, and sought to legitimize the Taliban.

Directorate S seeks to provide a thorough, reliable history of how the C.I.A., I.S.I., and Afghan intelligence agencies influenced the rise of a new war in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, and how that war fostered a revival of Al Qaeda, allied terrorist networks, and, eventually, branches of the Islamic State.

Musharraf told Wendy Chamberlin at Army House that a postwar government in Afghanistan, in addition to being "pro-Pakistan," should also be "Pashtun dominated."15 For two decades, I.S.I. had tried to control Islamist Pashtun parties to influence Afghan politics; it was not about to stop now.

yet here he was watching an American-led version of "what the Soviets did in Afghanistan.

Overall, the war left China with considerable latitude in Central Asia, without having made any expenditure of blood, treasure, or reputation.

American tolerance of the Taliban was publicly and inextricably linked to the financial goals of an oil corporation.

Far from being this big, booming voice, the Daily Mail is just a little man behind a curtain.

overspenditis." Today, people can become infected with this condition from watching too much television, reading too many magazines and catalogs, or hanging out with free-spending friends. Unknowingly, Paul and Sara had been lured into believing that they needed to have and do all the things they saw their friends doing—whether or not the money was there.

Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.

Four words that describe leadership," he counted them off on his fingers. "Love. Energy. Audacity. Proof.

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

People get jealous and use whatever information they have to make you feel bad and themselves feel better.