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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.”

Author:Bill Watterson

“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.”

Ideas Matter Certain New York Theory Conversation Vague New Yorkers Clout

Author:David Frost

“We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.”

Ifs Giving Writing Trying Turns Individual Trouble Beats And Love Bigger Affair Financial Size Pursuit Gratification Keep Trying Love Affair Fascists Clout Lyric Poetry

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.”

Jobs Political Sleep Troops Credibility Clout

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“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.”

Decision Directors Developing Budgets Clout Implementing National Intelligence

Author:Leonard Boswell

“I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.”

Shapes Playwright Clout Antigone Restructure

Author:Seamus Heaney

“My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.”

“The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society to get its arms around it is much less. The political clout of the financial class is unbelievable. I'd say the story is darker than when I was there. When I was there it felt like a comedy - and now it feels more like a tragedy.”

Feels Stories Political Felt Ability Pay Class Comedy Greater Arms Capitalism Bigger Tragedy Institutions Financial Centre Unbelievable Clout

Author:Michael Lewis

“The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the top of your head. It's the combination of that meticulousness and the power of the prose and, I think, the depth of the characterizations and the risks that I've taken with language that give the books their clout. And that's where I get pissed off at a lot of my younger readers.”

Thinking Giving Writing Book Language Taken Risk Reader Pages Complexes Depth Combination Prose Outlines Dense Tabloids Pissed Off Characterization Clout

Author:James Ellroy

“But the judge would have to be people in the fashion world and a bunch of random girls. Because guys in the league aren't trying to impress guys in the league. They're trying to impress people who have clout in the fashion world and women.”

People World Trying Guy Girl Fashion Judging Bunch League Impress Clout Fashion World

Author:Iman Shumpert

“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.”

People Want Today Term Movement Comfortable Mass Defeat More Money Great Power Clout

Author:Edward Snowden

“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.”

People Community Talking Groups Type Organization Unions Strikes Organize Loan Acorns Clout

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

Ifs Needs Giving Years Heart Real Helping Deals Healing Alive Happened Events My Heart Things Happen Ghost Empowering Brutal Dwelling Staying Alive Clout

Author:Joshua Mohr

“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.”

Ifs Giving Writing Would Be Careers Trouble Effects Journalist Prize Publishers Notoriety Clout

Author:John Banville

“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.”

Ifs Giving Writing I Can Laughing Cry Emotional Reader Scene Cost Give Me Good Day Typewriters Have A Good Day Clout

Author:Alan Moore

“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.”

People Believe Government Jobs Political Spirit Opportunity Millions Economy Succeed Approach Commitment Determine Backgrounds Initiative Limited Government New Job Clout

Author:Paul Ryan

“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.”

Years Shows Stars Attention Roles Makers Relish Mtv Clout Show Biz

Author:Rob Sheffield

“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.”

Children Done School Political Views Party Teacher Serious Members Unions Democratic Block Brands Reform Champion Damage Democratic Party Clout Teachers Unions

Author:Juan Williams

“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.”

Book Reading Healing Air Flower Medicine Clouds Flight Flames Meat Steel Stitches Clout

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.”

Knows Wanted Boys Violence Invited Clout

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

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

People Values Names Parent Deep Down Clout

Author:Claire LaZebnik

“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.”

Ifs Giving Care Jobs Parent Saws Identity Take Care Customers Brands Brokers Clout

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“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 it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.”

“Don't cheer me, just hear me Out 'cause I got the clout-shout (Ho!) Before I turn the party out”

Turns Causes Party Hip Hop Cheer Clout

Author:Rob Base

“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.”

Country Political President Company Break Saws Economic Politician Corporations Clout Make Or Break President Eisenhower

Author:Byron Dorgan

“Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...”

Ends Government Military Industry Complexes Spending Medical Socialism Divides Banking Deficit Lobbyists Military Industrial Complex Clout Excessive Spending

Author:Ron Paul

“"Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest. . . ."”

Ifs Thinking Life Choices Results Produce Things To Do Right Thing Clout

Author:Wilbur Lucius Cross

“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”

People Body Politics Position Politician Pure American Politics Clout

Author:Ben Bradlee

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

Trying Seems Power Exercise Clout

Author:Malcolm Forbes

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

Firsts Issues Negotiation Clout

Author:Saul Alinsky

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

War Prison University California Gang Clout

Author:Tom Hayden

“God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.”

May God Christian Religious Grace Lows Mercy Cups Cash Misers Clout

Author:Max Lucado

“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.”

People Thinking Want Wells Film Can Do Careers Tvs Hollywood Series Tv Series Clout

Author:Kathy Bates

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

Interest Party Politician Divides Clout Romania

Author:Traian Basescu

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

Giving Roles Principal Clout

Author:Charles Dance

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