Public Satisfaction Quotes

Personally, I am opposed to capital punishment. . . . If there were some way devised to prevent . . . the extension of executive clemency to men who are sent up for life, if there were some way to keep them in for life, then I believe the public would be satisfied with the abolition of capital punishment. . . . In 1907 I was appointed to prosecute a man for one of the foulest cases of wife murder that I ever knew. . . . When the jury went out the first ballot was eleven for hanging and one for life imprisonment. . . . The second ballot was twelve for life imprisonment. . . . It is not seventeen years since I tried that case and yet this man is walking the streets to-day a free man by the action of some subsequent governor of Indiana, who pardoned or paroled over my protest. There will either have to be some way provided to keep these fellows in for life when they are once sent there, or those of us who are opposed to hanging will have to give our unwilling consent to the execution of these wilful and deliberate murderers.

Ordinary people want good government.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

People look at track records now, and voters as stakeholders want ease of living and development, which is my aim.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

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

We want the government of this country to realize that it has customers and that it has to be customer friendly.

There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

It will give satisfaction to the people; and be a happy means, under providence, of preventing popular commotions, mobs, bloodshed and civil war.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.

You know, the bully pulpit that the president has is pretty significant. And I think that one of the things this I've learned in my two and a half years in Congress is the American people want to see us transcend party label and transcend D and R and actually get things done, deliver to the American people, and I think if we were focused on that, we would be seeing a lot more folks happy with what's going on in Washington, D.C.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

My satisfaction is the people. They are very in love with what I represent for them. I represent what my grandfather did for Italy, a new generation, a future for the youth: a commitment in life, not just passing by.

Voters want to get things done.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.