Quotes About Influence

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation's largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

Even now, with the expectation that a substantial percentage of newly naturalized aliens would vote for the Democratic Party's 2016 nominee for president, the Department of Homeland Security's Task Force on New Americans is reportedly focusing resources on urging 9 million green card holders (aliens and noncitizens) to become naturalized American citizens as quickly as possible, in hopes of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.65

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps . . . and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life

defines a media-created "reality" whether or not it has a basis in true reality, around which individuals organize their thoughts, beliefs, and, in some cases, their lives.

These instruments can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed when they enshrined the freedom of the press in the First Amendment to our Constitution.

I mentioned that AT&T owns CNN. Comcast owns NBC. A partial list of others can be found at Investopedia.com

Money speaks louder than the public, problems overwhelm it, fatigue sets in, attention falters, cynicism swells. A

Even the most diligent parents have little effective input into what their children are taught in these classrooms. Indeed, they have no adequate or routine influence in the selection of teachers and professors, curriculum, or textbooks, which principally advance, either openly or through insinuation, a statist agenda and ideological groupthink hostile to the civil society and the American heritage.

The masterminds and their flatterers are progressively immune to regular democratic processes and pressures, such as elections and citizen lobbying, unless, of course, the electoral results and policy demands comport with their own governing objectives. Otherwise, they have an escalating preference for rule by administrative regulation, executive decree, and judicial fiat as the ends justifies the means.

But when the media function as a propaganda tool for a

Americans believe that the media have an important role to play in our democracy—yet they don't see that role being fulfilled.

For the first time in our history, the news increasingly is produced by companies outside journalism, and this new economic organization is important.

Thank God Donald Trump would never be in the White House.

do not fear Peter [the pope], but his secretary scares me."30

The most important way of remembering someone is by being the person they made us — at least in part — and living the life they have helped shape. Sometimes they are not worth remembering. In that case, our most important existential task is to expunge them from the narrative of our lives. But when they are worth remembering, then being someone they have helped fashion and living a life they have helped forge are not only how we remember them they are how we honour them.

The place that gave us the marathon also gave us philosophy. That place was the city-state of Athens in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.

In a very real way, an author's creations are given over to others, the way a mother sends her children out into the larger world.

You can't just shove the past aside. It stays with you, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

You are what you read. You write what you are.

When you trick somebody into participating in a small-time fraud, it's called a 'scam.' But when the scam is so big that people have no choice but to participate, it's called 'economics.

I don't like being talked into things by ungraceful people.

Good leaders make heroes of others.

Influence and inspiration come from the person, not the position.