Quotes About Influence

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

Washington is dominated by big money.

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]