Citizen Needs Quotes

Ordinary people want good government.

Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

I talk about jobs. I talk about education. I talk about making government work for people. That's really the dinner-table issues that I hear from Michiganders in every part of our state.

They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?

How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences?

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

We can no longer allow special corporate interests to shape our political and financial decisions, while our citizens and communities cry for real climate action.

We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens.

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

I will continue to advocate for projects and funding that will make our citizens' daily lives better.

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

The real needs of the people ought never give way to the imaginary wants of the state.

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations.

When we run for office, our job is to work for everybody. You can't work for everybody if you don't listen to everybody.

Part of the responsibility of government is to serve the needs of those that have the least among us.

When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.

I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Quite frankly, the federal government needs - as it needs to on so many levels - to be a better partner to provinces and municipalities with the challenges their citizens are facing. I think a federal government that collects appropriate data and actually understands what people are challenged with in their daily lives, and in their hopes and dreams, is going to be able to help with municipalities and provinces in addressing various challenges like these.

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.