For The People Quotes

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

I love playing for people.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.

Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

I generally play strong people and scary people.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people, most - than most proposals for involuntarily fertility control.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

Some people are more terrorist than others

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.