Quotes About Influence

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

The political is personal.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

Politics is but a narrow field.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.