Quotes About Influence

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.

Music and fashion combined make such a lethal weapon in my opinion.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Judicious absence is a weapon.

It dawned on me that theatre is a powerful weapon for change.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.

Public diplomacy was an effective Cold War weapon.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

I've studied martial arts, but of course I'm not anywhere near the level of my father. Still, people assume I'm a lethal weapon anyway!

A lawsuit can be a weapon.

Social media constitute the most powerful readily accessible communications weapon Hamas has in its arsenal.

If you are looking to create an information weapon, the battle space you operate in is social media. That is where the fight happens.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

I'm very concerned about the nuclear weapons development for Iran and the destabilizing influence it has and they have in that part of the world. And I strongly endorse continued pressure, diplomatically, financially, economically.

'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.