With People Quotes

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that.

I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe.

As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world.

I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for."

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

In fact, the American people did decide, back in 2012, when they elected me president of the United States.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.

People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

The American people are going to have a good choice.

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.

By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else.

The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

On behalf of the American people, just let me say that we are proud to count Greece as one of our closest allies and one of our greatest friends.

I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

To young people: you have to stay encouraged.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.

I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.

We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.

I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.

I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.

I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.

Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he's just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets - you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It's scary.