People Quotes by Andy Rooney

Dogs are nicer than people.

— Andy Rooney

Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.

— Andy Rooney

I like animals who trust people.

— Andy Rooney

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

— Andy Rooney

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

— Andy Rooney

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

— Andy Rooney

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

— Andy Rooney

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

— Andy Rooney

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

— Andy Rooney

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ...

— Andy Rooney

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

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

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

Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what…

— Andy Rooney

People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time.…

— Andy Rooney

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who…

— Andy Rooney

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

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

I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human…

— Andy Rooney

There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting…

— Andy Rooney

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

I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this…

— Andy Rooney

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their…

— Andy Rooney

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

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

I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get…

— Andy Rooney

I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects…

— Andy Rooney

Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They…

— Andy Rooney

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

Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.

— Andy Rooney

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but…

— Andy Rooney

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to…

— Andy Rooney

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment…

— Andy Rooney

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn…

— Andy Rooney

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous.…

— Andy Rooney

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the…

— Andy Rooney

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

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

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

If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to…

— Andy Rooney