Quotes About Influence

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

There's no way to use power for good.

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.

In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.