John Hutton People Quotations

An active welfare state must provide a floor below which no one should be allowed to fall, but its primary role must be to enable people to provide for themselves.

I did not come into politics to make poor people poorer.

What we certainly do accept is that many people have suffered serious losses through pension schemes having collapsed in this way and that's why we've already made 400 million pounds worth of public resources available to provide financial assistance to people in those circumstances.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?

We want people of all ages from every section of the community to be involved.