Quotes About Influence

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

How can a president not be an actor?

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can