Quotes About Influence

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

Politics is social work with power.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.