“I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily like the things footballers do. All these kissing the badge, just doing it for the clout. — Micah Richards Copy Share Image
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence. — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just… — David Frost Copy Share Image
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When [Steven Lerner] says that unions and so forth are "dead," he's talking about clout. He's talking about power. But "community organizations,"… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is a cause, much like a religion. What is the philosophy behind gay pride parades? The same philosophy that there is… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
But the judge would have to be people in the fashion world and a bunch of random girls. Because guys in the… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more… — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we… — Wilbur Lucius Cross Copy Share Image
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image