Quotes About Influence

What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically - it's also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.

You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it's different. We are pro-immigrant. That's our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

Labour and land are always politically sensitive.

I think it accrues to Hawaii's benefit that I have friends in Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. We're already geographically isolated, so it's really critical that we don't become politically isolated.

We will always miss Balasaheb, but I will work hard to ensure that his absence is not felt politically.

I'm not your average politician. I believe in higher forces.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.