People Quotes

"I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out"

Barack Obama, President

"I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way"

George W. Bush, President

"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way"

Barack Obama, President

"Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'"

Barack Obama, President

"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time"

Barack Obama, President

"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead"

Barack Obama, President

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations"

Barack Obama, President

"I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver"

Barack Obama, President

"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents"

Barack Obama, President

"Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career"

Barack Obama, President

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day"

Barack Obama, President

"But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that"

Barack Obama, President

"And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation"

Barack Obama, President

"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges"

Barack Obama, President

"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential"

Barack Obama, President

"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction"

Barack Obama, President

"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people"

George W. Bush, President

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"A people always ends by resembling its shadow"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom"

George W. Bush, President

"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me"

George W. Bush, President

"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened"

George W. Bush, President

"I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand"

George W. Bush, President

"I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon"

George W. Bush, President

"I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch"

George W. Bush, President

"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States"

George W. Bush, President

"The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

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