Quotes About Influence

In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.

It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

Donating to a political party is a social good. It enables democracy and good things to happen in our communities.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

I never had a political power base.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

I think that building political power has to come from the outside and from within. Meaning, we have to build political alternatives to the existing system, and we have to try to impact what is happening in the existing system.

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

I believe the first reason that Donald Trump is running for president is because he truly believes that he can help turn the nation around. The second reason I believe is that this is the greatest position in the world, to be at the center of political power, of the universe.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.

Big money is ruining the political system.

Money is the root cause of why our political system is broken and why Americans are so frustrated.

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.