Quotes About Influence

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

Politics is applied biology.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.