Quotes About Influence

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Politics is downstream from culture.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.