Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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!
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.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
