Clout Quotations

If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.

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

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

Music is timeless. There's just a novelty to television that you can't compare to music. To try and rely on your television clout in the music industry is not going to take you very far.

Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.

Police have a lot more clout now and they really seem to be using it.

kind of made my life difficult, because my script was around before they came around and they had a lot of bigger clout attached to it.

There are so many negative myths about black male athletes, myths that I have personally committed myself to eradicating. But all of my actions will never carry the media clout or have the domino effect of one of Mike Tyson's misdeeds.

Fragmented boards can't have the expertise needed to review the Army Corps of Engineers plans for the levee system nor the clout to hold them accountable. Multiple boards cannot be part of a cohesive solution for the region. It is also reasonable to expect that a single board is going to be more efficient and cost effective yielding greater results everywhere for everyone.

I think he would like to convey that China is not a threat, that China's growing clout is benign for the world.

It doesn't mean there's going to be a strike, it just means that they've maintained some of their clout at the bargaining table. This is a usual part of the negotiations.

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

The president has a lot at stake here. This is the first major test of his political clout after the election, ... He's said over and over again, 'I support this bill.' Now, if he fails to get that bill through, he has to be worried about the signal that sends about his own political clout with his own party. I think the Congress has a lot at stake. But aside from politics, what is really important here is the safety of the American people.

We don't have the massive clout that Hollywood does,

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.

We are beyond excited to get him. Obviously, everybody knows what he has done in the game. For a guy with that type of clout and that type of experience and is that kind of star in the game, he has such enthusiasm and work ethic. You could just tell he has the passion to work with young kids. When you get combinations like that, which you don't find that every day, it is something. For me, he has been so outstanding since he has been there. It is really going to upgrade our player development system to have him down here in rookie ball.

We have a little more clout than they do, but we need the White House to weigh in,

The reality is that even together, they lack the clout of Nike.

The poor ratings on the TV show equated in my mind to the fact that management of Martha Stewart Living no longer had the clout to enter into new deals or to announce any kind of new Martha Stewart-related projects that would give the stock further support.

We're looking to sign artists who make great hit music that can have mass appeal regardless of genre. There have been independent gay and lesbian labels before, but nothing that has the clout of Sony. We can mine all the great music within the Sony archives and beyond.

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

The defeat is extremely serious for the prime minister. It will be difficult for him to regain credibility and clout and to be a candidate for the next presidential elections.

While Pfizer's cash flow would likely be impacted by the loss or change in structure, we note that a partnership with another consumer health business could create increased clout for shelf space and thus operate with new synergies.

There has been a significant loss of clout with those two guys gone.

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

Bloom's exit coming at the heels of COO Ray Lane's departure leaves only Ellison with the kind of universal clout to call on senior executives at Fortune 500 companies to deliver Oracle's suite message. We think that the leadership question increases the risk to the story.

I've been very instrumental in pushing for the reform in our intelligence system, to have a national director where they've got clout over these 15 different agencies. We look back prior to 9/11 and there was some information out there that wasn't being shared just because the system is antiquated and wasn't working. We've got to fix that and we're in the process of doing it.

Russia wants to win global clout by acting as a mediator amid growing tensions between the West and the Islamic world.

As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

That's what's the best about this job. You're taking a brand that everyone knows and you have that clout to sell.

That's for the readers to adjudge, but I will say that in general public commentators have nowhere near the clout that we enjoyed 35 years ago, the age of four TV channels and no Internet, ... As far as I'm concerned, it's all good. You can't have too many voices in a democracy. Talented people will find their audiences.

There's no doubt that in today's world, booster clubs have more clout because the need for them is more than it used to be.

The West Side neighborhoods haven't had the kind of clout they had in the WEST PAC days. We're trying to pick up where they left off.

I had a little (problem) with the university toward the end of last year and they were concerned about what was going to happen. I said, 'Look, everybody relax. If I can keep my staff together, we will surprise a lot of people. Everybody just relax.' Thank goodness I had enough clout that I could get them to relax.

If you are an envoy of the quartet, you have a certain amount of possibilities in negotiations. If you are the secretary of state of the United States, I would have to say, there is a little more clout associated with it. And to push it over the edge, one needs not envoys, but secretaries of state.

It's really quite astonishing how little Floridians are getting from their 25 House members. We have a dearth of real leaders in the House from Florida. It's surprising how little clout these members have.

The NRC likes to see players that have a fair amount of assets with very experienced nuclear management teams that are focused just on that. If you get down to being only a group of three plants, your clout or your view with the NRC is diminished.

The insurance industry's enormous clout in Sacramento is tied to their political contributions, like those they gave to Mr. Vargas.

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.

I play an agent who used to be partners in a very large talent agency. My partner died and everybody left. Evidently he was the brains of the outfit, so now my setup couldn't be smaller. I have absolutely no clout in the business but still consider myself a player.

The U.S. oil companies have a lot of clout but they are up against a formidable set of farm senators. A pretty strong lobby in the farm sector says we should hold off (lifting the duties).

They wanted lots of different plans, none of which would have the bargaining clout to get prices down.

They literally have mobilized themselves into an advocacy organization that, I would say, has growing clout in Washington.

The most popular price level that everybody thinks of is 10,000 because it's such a round number and these very significant round numbers very often have a lot of clout in terms of being difficult to penetrate in any direction.

The idea that a lot of things can get out without marketing clout is not there. I think there are complications for the next several years, as we are still in a theatrically driven mode.

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and sub-nuclear world. Physicists then had greater clout than other scientists because the memory of their role in the Second World War was fresh in people's minds.

You can see the political clout of the moneyed interests.

These fund families collectively control $1 trillion, 70 percent of the US mutual fund market. The bottom line is this: mutual fund companies have the clout to hold the companies in their portfolios accountable for climate change impact, and furthermore they have a duty to do so.

It is quite revealing of things that had been suspected about which there had been little clear evidence, about his clout inside the White House.

This limit would ensure that each citizen would know they had as much financial clout as any other citizen.

They're not from a Communist country, and so folks tend to assume they're just economic refugees. They don't have the kind of political clout that a lot of other groups have. And frankly, I think the color of their skin has a lot to do with it.

They're getting their message across before bargaining begins in earnest. Showing a lot of visibility and political clout means bargaining will be influenced by not just what happens at the table but what happens in the community.

For the artists, the benefit is that there is a label which embraces their identity and sexuality as part of their persona. In addition, they have the benefit of resources and clout of a major label to help them build their careers.

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.

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.