Quotes About Control

I can't control what people think about me or how they choose to remember me.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now.

As a comedian you have to remind yourself that it happens; every now and again you can just have a bad gig where things go beyond your control.

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are.

Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.

Rent control created deadweight loss.

If I want to go to a dance club, I have to rent out the whole club.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.

I've heard it said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. To that end, I think it's worth noting that the very first police force in America was created as a 'patrol' to keep slave populations under control.

Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.

'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That's amazing.

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.

So for me, you can't control the media, you have to work with media to get your message out there and you just hope that there's enough good honest reporting and people in the media that can get that job done.

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.