Quotes About Influence

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

Consumers are what's going to change the world, not necessarily industries or governments,

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

In every area of politics, the goal is control.

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.