Quotes About Influence

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'

Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

A businessman can be as military as any politician.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.

If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

As a musician to hang out with a politician, I think it's disgusting.

A politician's speech can't do what a movie or a cultural event like a song or piece of music can.

We get the politicians we deserve and the environment we deserve.