Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Money does not change people, people change.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

There are some loony people in this world!

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

People love conspiracy theories.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.