Quotes About Influence

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.

R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.

Live what you support online; do things.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

John Barnes was my idol growing up and he's the reason I've supported Liverpool. I play nothing like him, though!

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

I've supported a lot of different people. I went to law school with President Obama.

We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.

My mum and dad did everything for me. They supported me, gave me a lot of advice. That support is everything. It gives you the confidence you need.