With People Quotes

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?

We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.

[Donald Trump] borrows money from all kinds of people around the world, including more than $100 million from a German bank now under federal investigation.

A lot of people believe, including Howard Dean is looking at this, that the Democratic party demands a full-time chair.

This is a huge decision [to choose advisers and Secretary of State]. This is where he [Donald Trump] has the least experience and will have to rely on people with experience.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

My first goal was to get a job . And I did that. And I think I've just been fortunate to be surrounded by good people who believed in me as much as I believe in myself.

We're Hollywood, it's no big deal to see movie stars, TV stars, whatever. But if I go outside of LA, that's when people freak out.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.

There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.

As I mentioned we have arrested or detained over 1,000 people here in America to determine to find out what they know.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at.

What people can dream, people can do.

[T]he course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others. Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.

It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.

[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.

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.

I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'