Carrie Lam Quotes

In the back of my mind, always, is the firmly held belief that public policies must serve the long-term interests and well-being of the community at large.

The public interest is more than the sum total of the interest groups.

Private interests must be made subservient to the general interests of the community

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

The only public good is that which assures the private good of the citizens.

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities....In all that the people can individually do for themselves, government ought not interfere.

We have to be guided by the interest of society and the development of the state.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

A country is not a business and a government should stand for much more than economic efficiency.

I will ever prefer the weal of the public and of the whole commonwealth, in making of good laws and constitutions, to any particular and private ends of mine

We need government to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

Governments are not normally concerned with the welfare of the people they govern.

Get people to think about the benefits of government rather than taxes.

The supreme inspiration is the common weal.

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

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

We have to support the well-being of society.

Labour's approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

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.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

I've always believed as a value that the government has a vital - not overwhelming, but vital - role to play in furthering human welfare and good. I think we have an important supportive role to play, hopefully intelligent and sensible.