Quotes About Influence

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

I am fighting to stop the corruption in Washington that was created by Mitch McConnell.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.

To be sure, the Trump administration is shot through with corruption.

Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily disentangled.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.

The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

Many people vote a straight party line from the president down to city council. Hollywood publicists need to think long and hard about who they are putting forward to lead their awards season campaigns.

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

People can say what they want. It is the people inside the camp who count to me. The people around me.

You can't count on things happening if you're not in control of them happening.

I was someone who thought my vote didn't count.

The calmness and confidence I take into matches has an effect not only on our rivals but also on my team-mates, who are counting on me.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

Do not let ASEAN become a playing card for the competition among major countries.

Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.