Public Need Quotes

Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone of secrecy around decision making. Both are important, yet they are mutually exclusive.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by becoming necessary.

The time when people really want government is in an emergency.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

Common carriers exercise a sort of public office, and have duties to perform in which the public is interested.... Their business is, therefore, affected with a public interest

I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

The people need to know about guys like John Moraga.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

I cannot support keeping our brave service men and women away from their families without a clear need or purpose that would actively benefit the people of Wisconsin or our nation.

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.

Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.