Folks Quotes

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

I absolutely think that when we talk about family, faith, community, I think it's important for Democrats to be able to connect with folks where they live.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

My job is to watch the powerful. It's a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don't hurt the folks.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people.

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

This is a guy [Donald Trump] who has been very consistent on no amnesty, no legalization, for folks who have been coming to the country illegally.

If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney's performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!

Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.

Women in stores will pull their children away from me sometimes so they won't catch the crazy Creed virus. Other folks are disappointed that I'm not that guy in person.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

I will try just about all the folk food we go to in any place.

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.