Philip Kitcher Quotes

What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.

Residents expect their state leaders to deliver solutions for the people of their state.

The people of New Jersey sent me to Congress because they are tired of partisan gridlock. They want to see our Congress get to work on legislation that will make people's lives better.

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.

The voices of the residents of Flint did not get heard by people that were making decisions and I think that's the most important thing. I want to make sure those voices are answered in the future.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.

Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.