#personal influence

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. ↗

— Bela Kun

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The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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