Ingvar Kamprad Quotes

The people’s priorities are our priorities. The people’s concerns are our concerns.

When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't like talking about myself, I don't like the whole atmosphere of how people are judged in American politics too often as to what you say instead of what you do. And so for me it's always about what can I do for you? How can I help you?

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?

I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

The business of serving the American people is a tough, and sometimes thankless task.

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

I think a great leader is somebody who realizes it's not about them, it's about the people that they're serving, that they're really other-directed rather than self- directed.

Pick somebody who knows what it's like to live on an average income and to deal with the problems that most Americans face. Pick somebody who's traveled this country and who will remember who put him in the White House - not to be a king but to be a public servant.

I want to be that President who serves the American people the way they deserve to be served.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that we are given power, not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

Presidents cannot lead if they don't know what's going on in the life of the average American.

A leader should not be obstinate, but must think of the people.

In my campaign, people and their needs come before everything else.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.

I do not represent public opinion. I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public and the public’s opinion of those interests.

He serves his party best who helps to make it instantly responsive to every need of the people.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

I am working for Alaska's best interests.

When you travel and when you campaign, people tell you their problems. You see the problems and you become aware of them and you talk about them every day. And so you feel the responsibility for doing something about them.

I serve and answer to the Texans I represent - not the Hollywood elite.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.