“I think the city manager's had too much influence on policy.”

“The perception that candidates who are war veterans are influencing the national party is wrong.”

“Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.”

“You have the potential for extreme, unprovoked violence when under the influence.”

“If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.”

“what happens in the development section ... will influence positions on other parts of the document.”

“Economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live”

“Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.”

“We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.”

You get more reach and influence when you are being productive