I think the world is run by 'C' students.
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.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.
Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women. The billionaire gets along with the bricklayer.
Elected office was never intended to become its own industry; it was to be filled with common men who, by way of still having jobs and families back home, maintained the connection to the problems of average, everyday people and thus could better serve.
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a politician, whether it's an average person on the street - and to be honest with you, sometimes these politicians sound like average people on the street.
In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.
There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.
I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.
Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
I like playing average guys who have a little extra something.
Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.
For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
We don't need the best and the brightest. We need people of average competence and good character.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?
