Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Alan Siegel
Alan Siegel

Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. These ideas, more often than not, divide us rather than serve to bind us.

Andy Beshear
Andy Beshear

We all want Kentucky to be a place where our children and grandchildren want to - and can afford to raise their own children, keeping families together and growing our commonwealth. For the common good.

Arpad Busson
Arpad Busson

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Caroline Lucas
Caroline Lucas

There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people are prepared to make hard choices for the common good.

Carrie Lam
Carrie Lam

Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.

Carrie Lam
Carrie Lam

A consensus on realising the goal of universal suffrage is not unattainable if we bear the common good in mind, move a step further, and try to resolve the differences or even stop insisting on some of one's own views.

Carrie Lam
Carrie Lam

In my opinion, serving the common good is the true purpose of politics and is also the perspective through which our community should consider constitutional reform.