Clout Quotes

• And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, People, Political

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• I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

  Charles Dance

  Giving, Roles, Principal

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• The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Israel, Way

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• 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

  People, Body, Politics

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• 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

  Hurt, Cities, People

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• We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Believe, Commitment

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

  Traian Basescu

  Party, Politician, Romania

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• Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

  Tom Hayden

  War, California, Prison

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• Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Names, People, Parent

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• When [Steven Lerner] says that unions and so forth are "dead," he's talking about clout. He's talking about power. But "community organizations," the ACORN types, these are the groups that can successfully organize a strike - a strike meaning people just stop paying back on their loans.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Organization, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Jobs, Giving, Parent

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• But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Years, Mtv

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• The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

  John Banville

  Writing, Careers, Giving

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• If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Good Day, Emotional

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• And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.

  Kathy Bates

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.

  Juan Williams

  Teacher, Children, Block

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• The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

  Leonard Boswell

  Decision, Directors, Developing

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• 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

  Real, Law, Enforcement

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.137, Penguin

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• Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Exercise, Power, Trying

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• Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart years after the events transpired. And no good comes from that. These ghosts don't need us to help them stay alive. If we're after real deal healing, these ghosts must desiccate.

  Joshua Mohr

  Real, Healing, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Enough, Dialogue, Cartoonist

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Cat, Discipline, Political

  "Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Episode 2". "Climate One" with Greg Dalton, www.prx.org.

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• Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Stones, Reason

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 4

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• No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

  Saul Alinsky

  Issues, Firsts, Negotiation

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• Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Fighting, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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