Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things.

Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.

If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them?

I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.

There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

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