John G. Diefenbaker Quotes

I love playing the common man.

We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

The thing about bikers and truckers is they're just regular folks, and that's definitely my demographic.

There are a lot of people out there that really aren't that different than me, I consider myself a pretty average guy, so hopefully they understand me and know where I am coming from. I kinda feel like I am a voice for them.

You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

I'm not asking for the support of the powerful, the strong and the mighty—but of the average Canadian, the group to which I belong.

We believe in the common sense of the common people.

I have been brought up amongst the Irish people. I was reared in a laborers cottage here in Ireland. I have not lived soley amongst the intellectuals—whever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted, I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight away what the Irish people wanted.

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

With Don Rickles and me, we're just telling the truth. We're not terrific people, and we're not gonna win the beauty contest. We're just average Joes. We're just being who we are, and I think people like that.

I play real men that I can identify with. I have a lot of guys tell me that they relate to me because I represent the real, everyday dudes.

I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

Most of our fans are the hardworking people of the world. They are the people who have made this country great.