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People Quotes



"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."



"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency."


"I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way."


"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."


"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."


"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."


"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."


"I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me."


"The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads."


"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."


"Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?"


"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."


"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."


"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."


"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount."


"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."


"I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people."


"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."


"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."



"And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons."


"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside."


"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."


"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."


"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."


"I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'"


"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."



"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."



"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people."


"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."


"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."


"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."


"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."



"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."


"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."


"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people."


"And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places."


"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people."


"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
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