Quotes About Influence

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.

I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.