Quotes About Influence

There's sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That's where the money is.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

I think money in general hurts all sports.