Dean Kamen Quotes

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

This is a free country but the upkeep is killing us.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

Could we do without the social safety net, without Social Security, without Medicare, without farm subsidies, without unemployment compensation, without school lunch programs, without housing assistance? Of course we could. But we would not be a civilized society and we would not be an American nation any of us would be proud of.

No man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries.

I don’t think I’d set money above public health. I place them all at the highest ranking.

They [the people] are offered the Constitution. But the people can't eat the Constitution.

We do ourselves in and expect society to pick up the tab.

The human body needs air, water and food. Only the good Lord makes air and water. Only farmers and ranchers make food.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

Every man has a right to bread.

The commonly urged identification of Constitutional freedom with the freedom of business enterprise is an illusion which could be entertained only in a society which is too busy in seeking success to give time or energy to finding out what success is.

He who has stopped to calculate what liberty will cost has renounced liberty in his heart

When 125,000 people are gathered together on 10 square miles of land they must of necessity give up certain of their liberties. It is a sacrifice they must make for the sake of the advantages of city life.

Honor to the French! They have taken good care of the two greatest human needs—good eating and civic equality.

In India, more people have cell phones than access to a toilet

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is necessary to lead a good life.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization;

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs.