George Galloway Quotes

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

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

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.

There are certain domains which are so vital to the well-being of citizens that they must be kept out of the private sector and the law of supply and demand.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

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

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

All government is intended for the benefit of the people.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

I believe in public services.

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.

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.