Quotes About Influence

Leaders aren't just born. They're made. You can never stop learning. You can't lead from the back. You have to take care of your people first.

Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.

It is my belief there is too much concentration of power and spending in Washington.

Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.