Quotes About Influence

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

Influence is not government.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.