Public Desire Quotes

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Ordinary people want good government.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.

What the people want, God wants.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

What the masses want are monuments.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public's desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.

I think the American public wants to see a change. They want a fresh start.

When I am filming dramas, I lean towards doing what the public wants to see from me.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

God chose me for a reason. My momma tells me that every day. I know there's a million people who want to be in my shoes.

Give the people what they think they want.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'

I think people want to see a hero. It's interesting that with everything that goes on now from shootings to everything, as time goes on, I'm just starting to realize just how bad people want to see a regular hero.

I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.

Peace with honor is a dead formula. Pease with comfort is what the people would have liked to hear.

I think there are some people in Washington who are pretty out of step with what people want, certainly what Minnesotans want.