Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ... — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who think they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]…We're trying to protect ourselves… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous.… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
![“Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]…We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want…” quote by Andy Rooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/701/andy-rooney-1253_behave_some-people-who-hated-americans-set-out_949280.jpg)
