Quotes About Influence

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

Honestly, I don't want to worry about the trivial feelings here. I have nothing and I still have a far way to go. There's no time for me to hesitate. The people around me force me to hesitate.

The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.