Average Citizens Quotes

The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

middling people

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

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.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

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

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

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

I just don't think we're going to change Washington until we put some people down there who look like average Marylanders.