Who said “What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those…”?

“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”

“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”

“There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.”

“I am a deeply superficial person.”

“The people are to be taken in small doses.”

“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”

“The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.”

“No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.”