Quotes About Influence

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.