Quotes About Influence

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.