Quotes About Influence

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Based on every statement I've heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country