Quotes About Influence

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

God damn, The Pusher God damn, I say The Pusher I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.

The day was not far off when, as the saying goes, if Wall Street sneezed, the rest of the world would catch a cold. And Wall Street had not discovered how to stop itself sneezing.

No, the art of government was to curb and guide men's greedy appetites into useful courses, so that, as the Scottish economist Adam Smith proposed, private vice could be public gain. Hamilton

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen" James Howell

Timothy's eyes followed the straight back, the high shoulders, and the crisp white hair out of the door and out of his life -- a man, so he was to write years later, the like of whom he was never to met again, "because he was the only man I ever knew who could use words like honour, duty, and responsibility without making me feel like throwing up."

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

I think we are suffering from political impotence. We need political Viagra.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.