Quotes About Influence

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

The government means industry, if you know what I mean.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.