Top 280 For The People Quotes

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
I don’t work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Ted Yoho
I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
Gabrielle Giffords
When I leave the NBA, I don’t want my legacy to be, ‘He won a championship ring.’ I want my legacy to say, ‘He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.’
Gilbert Arenas
I am not against the state government. I am pro-people… Whenever the government goes wrong, I will speak up for the people of the state.
Uddhav Thackeray
Residents expect their state leaders to deliver solutions for the people of their state.
Steve Bullock
I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
Abbey Lincoln
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
Christopher Hitchens
Alabama’s Right to Work law has been a huge benefit for our state and for the people, helping to attract many businesses in our state.
Tommy Tuberville
We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We’re doing what we enjoy, and we’re not just playing for each other, we’re playing for the people.
Benny Green
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.
Michael Franti
I’ve spent time in the coastal Carolinas and have seen what small business development has done to maintain the wetlands and reestablish the fisheries and secure jobs for the people that make their living off the water.
Andrew Zimmern
We were raised with real values about the importance of work and respect for the people.
Antoine Arnault
For the people that don’t know it, we’ve had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It’s always been about collaboration, and it’s been about just playing music with our friends.
John Gourley
Various political parties, even if they’re in direct opposition with one another, still say they are the spokesperson for the people. The writer must speak his own words and not get mixed up with politics.
Gao Xingjian
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
Dennis Ritchie
If I can go through what I’ve been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that’s reality.
Master P
I would love to see a politician who really loves his country and is working for the people and not for him or herself.
Tony Hadley
It couldn’t be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn’t really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don’t gravitate to it.
Jon Hamm
I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it’s Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt – I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people ’cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples’ brands and help them learn a little bit.
Diplo
Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaur

Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I’ll always take a picture with them if they want. I mean, that’s what telling stories and acting for a living are for – for the people.
Matthew Moy
You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film – if they’re too heavy-handed, or you’ve pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you’ve spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.
Ben Wheatley
I’ve learned from being in the woods that titles don’t mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words – even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act – people who want to run the river or climb the mountain – even if they’re not members of my political party.
Mark Udall
When you’re not hearing my voice, I’m working on art. So if you’re not hearing me, I’m working for the people and getting inspired.
Lil B
I felt extremely concerned for the people of Punjab during the 1984 riots and militancy days.
Kirron Kher
I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people of South Africa is something I carry with me every day.
Aaron Schock
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
Kevin Costner
When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend – for the people around the world, you are different.
Fabio Cannavaro
I think of being the mayor of a big city with so many incredible things happening – but also so many challenges and opportunities – as really being kind of the chief advocate for the people.
Lori Lightfoot
We need a President who is intellectual, who is a brilliant thinker, and not only that, someone who has a heart for the people and who can represent Singapore on the greater world stage.
Nicole Seah
Populism, literally, means speaking for ‘the people.’ In practice it means demagoguery.
Gavin Esler
Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation’s vital domestic needs.
Raul Grijalva
We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn’t matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews.
John Lewis
We need a transformation to our energy system that not only reflects our climate reality. We need an energy system that is of, by, and for the people – not corporations seeking the largest possible profit.
Jamaal Bowman
Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.
Bill Gross
I pledge to dedicate everything I have to working for Japan and for the people.
Yoshihide Suga
In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
Sabine Baring-Gould
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Daniel Webster
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing – building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help.
David M. Kelley
I’ve always had a ‘stand up for the people’ type of personality.
Carmen Carrera
I still feel a heavy responsibility for the people of Missouri because of the respect they have for me but also the things they’ve done for me.
Kurt Warner
I can honestly say – not proudly, but honestly – before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother’s eyes.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
I’m honored to be the Republican nominee for Texas’ 13th Congressional District and I’m excited to get to work for the people of this district.
Ronny Jackson
Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico’s political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
Dick Thornburgh
I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.
Dick Van Patten
Lifting the veil of secrecy that shrouds police misconduct allegations would seem like an obvious democratic value. After all, if police work for the people, should they not be answerable to the people, as well? This is a basic tenet of good government.
Maya Wiley
I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother’s family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I’m from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.
Marcus Samuelsson
I was landscaping not too long ago, so I’m extremely grateful for the people supporting me in wrestling. Not that landscaping is terrible, but I’d rather be suplexing and punching people.
Matt Riddle
We are a regional party, and our interests are for the people of Odisha.
Naveen Patnaik
I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly Parton
Being attorney general has truly allowed me to be a voi

Being attorney general has truly allowed me to be a voice for justice for the people of Illinois and oftentimes the country – and I love it.
Lisa Madigan
Get married wherever you like, make accommodations for the people you love so they can attend, and forget about the people who can’t.
Emily V. Gordon
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Daniel Webster
I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli