Carrie Lam Quotes

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

The end of government is the good of mankind.

I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

If they think its such a sacrifice to go into public service, then they should stay the heck out.

The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

Are the welfare and safety of the whole body politic anything else than the welfare and safety of all its individual members?

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humaneness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

That’s the function of government—to do for people what they cannot do for themselves.

… the people are now inclined to think that politics is not merely a game at which the pawns have to be sacrificed to the knights and castles, but is an elevating and ennobling effort to carry into practical politics and practical life the principles of a higher morality

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.