The United States influences government and life…

The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

— Voltaire

As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been.

— Amanda Seales

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

— Barney Frank

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

— John Hospers

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

— Steven Pinker

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

— John Lothrop Motley

I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't…

— Mose Allison

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

— Frank Gehry

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

Everything in life influences my music.

— Jason Mraz

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

— Axl Rose

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to…

— Avril Lavigne

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

— Ambrose Bierce