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Quotes About Influence

The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
~ Russell Simmons
You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
~ Diana Vreeland
The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .
~ Eddie George
Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.
~ Myrtle Reed
We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don't, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
To money, the finest linguist in the world!
~ Minna Antrim
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.
~ Roger L'Estrange
A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.
~ Robert Kane Pappas
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
~ George Horace Lorimer
In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.
~ George Clooney
Money will respond to you just like people do.
~ Suze Orman
You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.
~ Tony Robbins
Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!
~ Thomas Hoving
Money amassed either serves us or rules us.
~ Horace
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
~ Zadie Smith
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
~ Horace
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.
~ Theodore Dreiser
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
~ J. C. Chandor
Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
~ Jack Germond
The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
~ Thomas Lennon
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
~ James Hansen