Sharad Pawar 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.

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

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

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.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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

The end of government is the good of mankind.

The supreme inspiration is the common weal.

There are certain public needs that outweigh private interests.

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

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

Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.

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

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

The good of the people is the chief law.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

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

All government is intended for the benefit of the people.

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

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.

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.

Public interest is a very unruly horse.