Quotes for All
I don’t want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement. Edward Snowden
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about – the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. Fred Thompson
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? Frank Herbert
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because … Read more
Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about. David Frost
Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout. Claire LaZebnik
I’m playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence. Charles Dance
President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician. Byron Dorgan
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
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. Ben Bradlee