Quotes About Influence

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Politics and football don't mix.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can't choose to be unaffected by it

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.