Quotes About People

The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

Elizabeth Warren fully intends to change the system, and says so. When she said how good it felt to be with working people in a workers' hall, you knew it wasn't a platitude.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.

Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people.

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.

The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.

There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people.

Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human.

There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.

Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?

We are determined to work in partnership with business not only towards our goal of full employment, but for more secure jobs for working people so they can get on and meet their aspirations.

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.