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People Quotes
"We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS."
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"The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions."
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"I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state."
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"There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back."
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"Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making."
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"If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice."
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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?"
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"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."
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"The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?"
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
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"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety."
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"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others."
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"An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution."
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"World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy."
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"I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was."
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"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
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"I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies."
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"It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too."
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"People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars."
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"I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should."
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"There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us."
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"A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough."
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"When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget."
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"Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out."
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"It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people."
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