For The People Quotes

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

I'm grateful for the people who watch everyday because if the viewers don't tune in, I don't have a job and I know that.

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.

The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

I get nice letters, but really I have no idea. I just try to enthuse people. You've been married for 31 years.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem