Quotes About Influence

The media is so powerful.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Making people laugh, I think, is very powerful.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

I think that one of the errors that social conservatives made - particularly Christian social conservatives - was a belief that they needed to use the power of government to try to shore up the various things that they believe make up a life well-lived.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

I don't think comedy really does change people's minds; I think you can only get someone who is almost ready to change their mind. You can't change someone from one direction straight into the other, but if you get someone who is considering your view, and you make a good point, there's power in that.

Lasith Malinga has been a great influence for me to bowl yorkers consistently.

We need to consistently play our role as a moral leader in the world.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.

In the Congress, for every small thing, you have to consult the general secretaries.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

We want people to watch and consume what we do, but we are not trying to sell anything. So that does give us a freedom in a way.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

You have to follow the consumer, and the consumer will be in control.