Quotes About Good Public Service

#1. That would make a good public service announcement, he mused ruefully: "Don't use your cell phone while driving. You might not notice the serial killer ahead waiting to shoot you.

Russell Atkinson

#2. I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Warren Beatty

#3. I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Mona Sutphen

#4. Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

John Sununu

#5. I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.

Beth Orton

#6. I want to know what passion is," she heard him saying. "I want to feel something strongly.

Aldous Huxley

#7. The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Elliott Abrams

#8. It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

Bob Ehrlich

#9. And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

Wynton Marsalis

#10. People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

Rob Huebel

#11. When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

James McGreevey

#12. Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

Narendra Modi

#13. A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.

Yann Martel

#14. I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

Bob Kerrey

#15. May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Ralph Thomas Walker

#16. The power of the visible is the invisible.

Marianne Moore

#17. Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

Peter Shepherd

#18. When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Trey Gowdy

#19. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

Nathan Hale

#20. Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

Pope Francis

#21. Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

Konosuke Matsushita

#22. Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

Burt Bacharach

#23. Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.

Congressman X

#24. Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

George Harrison

#25. She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.

Jenny Offill

#26. If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

Rebecca Manley Pippert

#27. Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#28. I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

Rebel Wilson

#29. One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#30. Public service is good for you,

Jim Flaherty

#31. Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Jonathan Haidt

#32. I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.

David Cameron

#33. 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