Elon Musk Quotes

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

Those who do not serve the public interest should not hold a public license.

A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

Government needs to be formed by people, and run by people, for the benefit of people.

I don’t trust a private entity to do a public chore.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested…. Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

We are a government that does its homework and listens to the public.

As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.

I'm a big fan of public trust.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

The public is a part of my real life.