Keir Starmer Quotes

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

Real politics should work for the long-term and overall interests of the community.

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.

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.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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.

You start from the broad premise that all of us have a common duty to the country to perform. Legislation is always the art of the possible. You could, of course, follow a course of solid opposition, of stalemate, but that is not in the interest of the country.

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

Public before private and country before family.

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

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.

One should do what is good for the country.

We have to support the well-being of society.

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

As it is for the good of all and the general well-being of the nation, I hereby consent; you may say to the people that I will remain. I will remain.

To govern is to increase and spread morality, education, and happiness.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

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

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.