Quotes About Influence

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.