Quotes About Supporters

Our agents reported that the journos weren't persuading anyone new; they were just keeping the Initiative's supporters from wavering in their calls for our heads.

To survive and succeed in exercising leadership, you must work as closely with your opponents as you do with your supporters.

His supporters dubbed him pater patriae, or 'father of the fatherland', one of the most splendid and satisfying titles you could have in a highly patriarchal society.

He fed his supporters a diet of grievances. Like Huey Long, he capitalized on their sense of being dispossessed and disrespected.

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Trump's key supporters worked for him because nobody else would have them.

elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down. Trump, goaded by Bannon, would continue to do the things that would delight conservative media and incur the wrath of liberal media. That was the program. The more your supporters loved you, the more your antagonists hated you. That's how it was supposed to work. And that's how it was working.

When traditional politicians break an important norm, their supporters turn on them, and their political standing suffers. But when celebrity leaders break an important norm, their fans don't turn on the leaders; they turn on the norm. In fact, they rally to the leaders, whose standing often improves, at least in the fans' eyes.

Trump's supporters don't adopt his name as such, but they identify themselves entirely with his slogan, to the point of transforming "MAGA" from an acronym to collective noun.

Put bluntly, abortion supporters have lost the argument on the scientific level.

No one in 1993 would have argued that the EPA was a perfect agency, or that there weren't some regulations that needed to be revamped; even its supporters had said as much. But the tobacco industry didn't want to make the EPA work better and more sensibly; they wanted to bring it down.

Our society's drive for the "Great American Dream" has become a nightmare! It keeps many potential moral supporters lulled in a stupor of spiritual inactivity.

Supporters of the two men believed they were victims of a deeply ingrained prejudice against immigrants and radicals.

supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.

Patrimonialism: supporters within the state benefit directly from their alliance with the ruler (corruption)

The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.