People Quotes

"George Bush doesn't care about black people"

"We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy"

Helen Clark, Statesman

"People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father"

Emile Lahoud, Statesman

"Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello"

Red Buttons, Comedian

"Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people"

George Mason, Statesman

"Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be"

Lionel Barrymore, Actor

"I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with"

Denis Leary, Actor

"I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve"

Bob Riley, Politician

"I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy"

Alan Jackson, Musician

"It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured"

Barney Ross, Athlete

"I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it"

Mort Walker, Artist

"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people"

James A. Garfield, President

"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before"

Anita Dunn, Public Servant

"Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"I want to get people thinking"

James De La Vega, Artist

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"

Bryan White, Musician

"Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis"

Paul von Hindenburg, President

"Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens"

Grover Norquist, Politician

"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately"

David Morse

"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity"

Boris Trajkovski, Statesman

"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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