Charles Jones People Quotations

It used to be thousands of people hanging out on the streets, getting ready for the parade with their kids and stuff. Kids are all in school somewhere else now. It's not really a family event today. Just people who've been able to come back, working. It's really sad.

My impression of what they're trying to do after the first few days is to recover exactly the kind of performance that they say they're good at, which is essentially an executive-style leadership. That is to say, 'We've got good people in all the top positions, we're hierarchical, we plan.' That's how they're trying to recover. You go with your strength to a point of weakness.

I really don't hang with the type of people that would have trouble with the police. I'm kind of low key and stay to myself. I haven't heard of anybody else saying anything wrong, either. As far as the racial stuff, I don't really have a comment on that. I couldn't tell you.

You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

In a time when his party almost never exceeded 51 percent of the seats in the House, he was able time and again to command the discipline to deliver. He was always playing on the edge, and people who play on the edge, and are effective, become targets.

You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.