Quotes About Influence

When you work in Kenyan politics, or politics in a lot of African countries, if a deal goes wrong you can pay for it. When you work for senior politicians in a lot of these countries you don't actually make money in the electoral work, you make money in the influence brokering after that.

When you reach the senior game, you can still be someone that leads by example but you can't just be that.

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it.

Michael Hutchence is an incredible frontman and a huge influence on me. I really love 'Mystify' and 'New Sensation.'

One of my favorite characters to watch growing up was Sensational Sherri.

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.

My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.

She's definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I'm a mama's boy.

As far as k. d. lang is concerned, she grew up devouring my music. She sent me a song when she was 8 years old, and she says I never wrote back.

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

Ethics and power are separate.

I cannot separate my achievements from what can be considered as the achievements of the ruling party.

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Dynasties cannot serve the country well.

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

You'll see me at my best is when I'm hopefully serving as a father to someone.

I learned watching Sesame Street how to speak English, and Bert and Ernie were my best friends. I believed in them and I learned from them, how to have a healthy and happy relationship.

It's not something someone sets out to do - I never really set out to make movies about strong fighting women, but it just seems to happen that way. I've certainly known some, and I think my sister was probably a big influence.