Quotes About Influence

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.