Coercive Influence Quotes

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Its [the Bush family’s] sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution

The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other people by force or by whatever other means.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly.

There may be evidence the Russians are trying to tamper with elections. The Russians are trying to infiltrate everything we do, and they've succeeded. They've infiltrated Hollywood, they've infiltrated our universities, probably try to infiltrate elections by who knows what. But the idea that there is evidence that Putin was actively trying to elect Trump, there isn't a morsel of evidence for that, yet it shows up. The truth of the matter is that Putin doesn't care who runs the United States. It doesn't matter to him.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.