Quotation for Today, Friday 3 October 2008

Scoopit!

“First we must ask: what’s happening to the poorest? A nation’s moral strength is measured by the how the poor are faring.

“Second, in the forthcoming election our first question should not be whom to vote for, but what we should vote for. We should examine policies on the basis of what they do for the well-being of all citizens.

“We should recognise that insufficient regulation of the market gives rise to naked greed and corruption.”

He said the world needed market freedoms to flourish, but there also needed to be regulation to ensure the common good and to protect people from profiteers.

Bishop Richard Randerson in a sermon on the evening of Sunday, 28 September as reported at Stuff.