Folks Quotes

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home.

I think most folks are good folks.

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who gave us the Wall Street bailout. And thats where Mitt Romney comes from.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.

Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

It's an absolute blast to be a voice actor, but also kinda scary that the vocal baby you just birthed out at a mic is then taken by other folks and becomes something else.

I was reared on folk music.

Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks. It has never worked! It has never fulfilled its promise.

Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every test for everybody without going bankrupt.

I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks, no! It's quite the opposite.

Obamacare can't work, folks. It just cannot.

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?

We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I'm confident.

Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.

Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street.

Seventy-seven percent of the people that have given money to Bernie Sanders are people that have given less than 200 bucks. That's a lot of people, folks. That's a lot of enthusiasm.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks.

The point is Obama didn't care that the jobs were leaving, folks!

Liberals hate corporations, folks. Corporations are not people.

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.

I was a normal kid. I rebelled. But I've never been a liberal. And there have been all kinds of efforts to make me one. I've not bothered to tell any of these stories. Folks, we all face them.

The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

Frankly, I'm tired of the powerful getting away with all kinds of stuff. Hillary [Clinton] didn't win - and, folks, there are ways without an actual prosecution.

[Vernon Jordan] and [Bill] Clinton would be in the same golf cart, they'd been out there playing golf, and every other word, folks, was what people hate [Donald] Trump for today!