Top 57 Quotes About Being A Public Servant
#1. I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
Kathleen Turner
#2. I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant. I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - for the common people and being a public servant, and I have seen this.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#3. Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
Herbert Hoover
#4. Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
Manny Pacquiao
#5. The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
Martin Van Buren
#6. Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.
Ellery Queen
#7. Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering servant, the Lamb of God.
Megan McKenna
#8. After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
Henry Howarth Bashford
#9. Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
King Felipe VI
#10. The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
Charles Babbage
#11. He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
Anton Chekhov
#12. If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Kin Hubbard
#13. As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.
Denis McDonough
#14. Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
Tom Robbins
#15. People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!"
Doug Stanhope
#16. It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.
Roseanne Barr
#17. To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.
Sidney Hook
#18. I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.
Ambrose Burnside
#19. I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.
George Washington
#20. Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
Harry Houdini
#21. Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
Mark Twain
#22. Arizonians are deeply proud of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's service to this country. She will always be remembered by Arizonans and all Americans as an extraordinary public servant.
Jon Kyl
#23. The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
Lady Bird Johnson
#24. We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time.
Thad Cochran
#25. Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Mel Martinez
#26. Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
Ron Suskind
#27. I admire John Boehner greatly. He's a great public servant. I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he's a person that is focused on solving problems.
Jeb Bush
#28. Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
Adlai Stevenson I
#29. Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#30. I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant.
John Boozman
#32. In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
Chuck Todd
#33. Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Thomas Browne
#34. The Truth about America's Silicon Valley-
Angels in the Silicon
Riveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.-
John Yoo, UC Berkeley Constitutional Lawyer, novelist, and public servant
Richard Theodor Kusiolek
#35. It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
William J. Clinton
#36. My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.
Marilyn Mosby
#38. I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
Warren Beatty
#39. Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?
Rosamund Hodge
#40. I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
Scott McClellan
#41. Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.
John Quincy Adams
#43. We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
Theodore Roosevelt
#44. As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
Jon Tester
#45. If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.
John F. Kennedy
#46. I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson
#48. Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.
Harry Browne
#49. David Cohen is without a doubt one of the best - if not the best - public servant I've ever encountered.
Raymond Kelly
#50. I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job.
Greg Hicks
#51. As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.
Alex Berenson
#52. Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#53. Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.
Eugene Jarecki
#54. The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!
Adolf Hitler
#55. When my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the
same.
John F. Kennedy
#56. I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me
I actually took my teachers seriously!
Sinclair Lewis
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