Quotes About Influence

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth.

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture of the Minerals Management Service at the Department of Interior contributed to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

I don't think most people are aware of the exotic and extreme tools at the disposal of the most powerful and wealthy men of America when they are bent at silencing accusations against them.

I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions.

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole.

From campaign contributions to expensive perks paid for by special interests, wealthy donors and corporate special interests have increasingly been able to purchase influence and promote their agendas in Congress.

Wealthy parents have long relied on a properly timed donation to improve their children's chances at admission to college.

If wealthy people put both their money and their time into fixing issues, I think we'd have much better results than if the government tried to fix those same issues.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.