Quotes About Influence

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

Many Americans remain very interested in royal goings-on in general, and not just because of their soap-opera appeal. To a greater degree than any other polity, Britain functions as Americans' defining 'other.'

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

DMK's arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I know it's not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, 'That's the end of that.'

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.

Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.