Clout Quotes

Clout Quote of the day

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

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.

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

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

Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.

You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.