Quotes About Influence

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

The E.U. elections provide an opportunity for the people of the United Kingdom to knock some sense into the heads of their political leaders.

I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.

The vote in the United Kingdom in favor of leaving the E.U. attested to the loss of elite influence.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.

Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

At the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.

We are now changing the culture at the United Nations. And with that, we're changing the culture in the world in the discussions that we're having.

When Barack Obama was running for president, he committed to leading the United Nations and other countries towards a common global goal. Obama believed that he could speak to allies and dictators directly and charm them into seeing the error of their ways.

I think the United States is extremely important for Mexican music.

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

The Russians didn't invent partisan divides. The Russians haven't invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions and they understand how to exploit them.

Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'United States of Tara.' I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe the first day I was on set, and I got pages of dialogue of real stuff to do with her.

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.