Quotes About Influence

I would not be where I am now without the efforts of so many Canadian baseball people and the fans of Canadian baseball.

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.

No candidate can become president without the Latino vote.

When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.

It's hard to pick yourself up and go vote for a candidate if you don't have any sense that that candidate could have an impact on your life.

As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.

When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Sports are my passion. They have been since I was a kid. So I think I'll be involved in sports in some capacity no matter what I do.

Every one of us has the capacity to lead.

I love MMA. I will be involved in some capacity, or in various capacities within the sport, after my fighting career is over.

I have a lot of players I like to see. For example, in my first few years, the player I think is the one everyone liked and always will like is Ronaldinho. For me, he is the player with the capacity to take you and put you in front of the TV, and you will stay for hours. For hours!

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

We are against crony capitalism.

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

I like dealing with people. I like being around people, and that side of me can try to get the best out of others, really. As a player and as a captain, I felt I did that.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

My first album was The Doobie Brothers... 'Captain and Me.' You always remember your first!