People's Interests Quotes

We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are.

Our task is to be responsible for our speech, acts and political standpoint. These must be in conformity with the people's ideas and interests

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Our government works best when it represents the needs of the American people, not special interests.

If the YSRCP is voted to power, agriculture sector will be given top priority. The interests of all sections of people will be protected.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people's state apparatus - mainly the people's army, the people's police and the people's courts - in order to consolidate national defense and protect the people's interests.

I represent the interests of almost 90,000 human beings in our system. That's by far my first and foremost commitment.

All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

All the actions of your government have been in favour of the markets, and against the people.

The agricultural and industrial system of a free people, like their political system, ought to be an accurate reflex of the democratic principle by the people for the people, solely in the interests of the people.

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.

We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working for ordinary working families and working-class families. And I think that's important. That's what I've spoken about.

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it's understandable that some people thought we should leave.

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people.

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.

In the political realm, when I say I'm going to give everything, that means I'll represent the people to the best of my ability.