Wadah Khanfar Quotes

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

I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

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 love playing the common man.

I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

I was once asked if I'd like to meet the president of a certain country. I said, "No, but I'd love to meet some sheepherders." The sheepherders, farmers and taxi drivers are often the most interesting people.

When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

I'm proud to represent the average woman.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

I think we should have more politicians from the street …. We need more regular people up here in Congress.

Politicians and bureaucrats aren’t benevolent or malevolent. They are just like the rest of us.

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.

While the politicians fight for place and power, what of the destinies of the common people, in whose name and for whose alleged benefit the contending factions appeal to the world at large?

Although I have lost my gavel, I have not lost my voice. I will be heard from.

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 want to produce untapped voices, find people and help them get their platform.

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