Quotes About Influence

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.