When Quinn was first elected Speaker, friends say, she was thrilled by the prospect of access to the Mayor.
Nor does the prospect of access to content from Bertelsmann make the pulse race fast no partnership of old and new media has yet produced anything to excite Internet consumers.
Escaping Peru's civil war was one reason, as was the prospect of access to otherwise inaccessible timber in the surrounding forest, but why right there, right then, and why so fervently try to contact the Mashco-Piros?
Prof Rahamon Bello, vice-chancellor of the university of Lagos, is excited by the prospect of access to a supercomputer which he thinks could help Africa "leapfrog other economies".
The launch of construction work on this desalination plant, offers the prospect of access to clean water for many thousands of families in Khan Younis and Rafah.
In hindsight, the fund arguably missed two other internal criteria as well, the report concludes: ascertaining that Greece had "good prospects of regaining access to private capital markets" and ensuring that it had a "reasonably strong prospect of the programs' success taking into account institutional and political capacity to deliver adjustment".
While it is important to discuss safeguards for minimizing the prospects of unauthorized access, the lack of consent is the wrong target.
The thawing of the north offers the prospect both of access to untold mineral wealth and drastically shorter shipping routes to the Atlantic.The US Geological Survey has estimated that some 30% of the world's undiscovered reserves of natural gas, and 13% of the undiscovered oil, lie in the Arctic.
Throughout history, the prospect of greater access to knowledge has frightened some people.
Readers, meanwhile, revelled in the prospect of instant access to innumerable publications, some of them unavailable by other means.
