Quotes About Influence

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.

I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.