Quotes About Influence

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.