Quotes about Influence

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.