“I'm not naive enough to believe that if I take a group out to a steak dinner, I'll have any influence.”

“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”

“Probably under the influence of drugs, possibly mentally disturbed and he was running around trying to get people's children.”

“I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that I've always been an extravagant liar,”

“The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.”

“Russian foreign policy is based on long-term national interests, and changes in the government cannot influence its course.”

“This school is going to become an example for educational innovation, as well as having a significant influence in raising the level of education in Indonesia.”

“Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking”

“Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on.”

“Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.”