Quotes About Influence

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

Governments are not representative.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.