Top 100 Quotes About Public Service
#1. 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
#2. In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
Dirk Kempthorne
#3. I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I think I have something to offer and to contribute. In no way will I put myself in a position of undoing what's taken 20 years to build.
Nigel S. Wright
#4. In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#5. When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.
Albert J. Nock
#6. I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
Scott McClellan
#7. Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.
David Letterman
#10. Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism
Tony Blair
#11. 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
#12. Corporations have to be responsive to price signals. We are not public service.
Naomi Klein
#13. I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it's time.
Jon Kyl
#14. You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
Douglas Wilder
#15. We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
#16. I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
Michelle Obama
#17. I feel bound to respect Ronald Reagan, as every American should - not least because he chose a career of public service when he could have made a lot more money doing something else, and not least because he took genuine risks for peace.
Rick Perlstein
#18. A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#19. Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
Barry Goldwater
#20. A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.
John Ralston Saul
#21. I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
Gabrielle Giffords
#22. I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.
Ronald Reagan
#23. The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
Donald L. Carcieri
#24. Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
Bill De Blasio
#25. The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.
Hillary Clinton
#26. In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.
Michel'le
#27. Disinterested public service has become, just so ... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
Tina Brown
#29. The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
Oswald Chambers
#30. Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily because the fiercely independent and uncooperative mentality of the frontier hunter-farmer has remained so deeply and tenaciously embedded in the mass psyche.
Harry M. Caudill
#31. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.
John Stuart Mill
#32. In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.
Charles W. Pickering
#33. My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.
Kenneth Chenault
#34. Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.
J.R. Ward
#35. The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
Ulysses S. Grant
#36. The Community's endorsement of the cultural role of public service broadcasting is useless unless it is guaranteed a central role in the digital platform' (Venturelli, 1998: 215).
Anonymous
#37. I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.
Grover Cleveland
#38. It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.
John Rowland
#39. While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.
John McCain
#40. 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
#41. Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power
#42. The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan
#43. What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.
Olympia Snowe
#44. I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.
Wes Moore
#45. I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
Andrew Cuomo
#46. Can you connect me with my mechanic?" "Sir, this is an emergency line. You need to go through the operator." "Listen, I don't have a quarter, and my taxes pay your wages. You're a public service. So connect me right now.
S. Schell
#47. What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.
Henry Hampton
#48. I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or ... anything.
Madeleine Albright
#49. Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
Michael Gove
#50. Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
Peter Jennings
#51. I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
Sonia Sotomayor
#52. I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.
Max Burns
#53. The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
Elliott Abrams
#54. It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our old age and moan about it, but I think the administrative processes and the management effectiveness of the federal government are terrible!
Paul Volcker
#55. Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
Margaret Chase Smith
#56. A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
Richardson Wright
#57. It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.
Thomas Sowell
#58. I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.
Jeb Bush
#59. There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need.
Chelsea Clinton
#60. I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.
John Adams
#61. Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
#62. And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes.
Cecil Baldwin
#63. My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
Bill De Blasio
#64. Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
Maggie Kuhn
#65. I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.
Marco Rubio
#66. In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.
Lou Barletta
#67. Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.
Jean Chretien
#68. The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#69. There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
John C. Calhoun
#70. He was convinced that public service and private misery were inextricably linked.
John Ferling
#71. The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#72. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#73. My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.
Stephanie Herseth
#74. So had begun and had ended a sincere effort to be of public service on the part of a well-intentioned but unreflecting and over-comfortable
Anton Chekhov
#75. The candidates we have in this campaign are ... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
Hillary Clinton
#76. I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
Maria Shriver
#77. I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
Michelle Bachelet
#78. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#79. My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
Frances O'Grady
#80. The only justification of private property," said Orren Boyle, "is public service.
Ayn Rand
#81. I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit is to entertain, but entertainment doesn't necessarily mean scraping the bottom of the barrel and appealing to the very lowest common denominator.
Jonathan Meades
#82. I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
Alexander Payne
#84. I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan Quayle
#85. I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.
Dana Perino
#86. I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.
Harlan Ellison
#87. I've found my sweet spot here in public service.
Tim Walberg
#88. One of the things that I will have ended my public service time with is a group of friends, a lot of friends. And I want to stay in touch with them and there's no better way to communicate with them than through email.
George W. Bush
#89. I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper
#90. 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
#92. 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
#93. What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
Olympia Snowe
#94. One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.
Sean Hannity
#95. I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.
Mike McGavick
#96. Public service is a tautology. It defines itself. It means to serve the public. Not yourself. It doesn't mean that you become enriched or have your name emblazoned on headlines. There are two words to describe the mission of politics: do it. Don't talk about it. Do it.
L. Douglas Wilder
#97. For the purposes of this paper and discussion, I will equate public service with 'public interest' and 'public welfare', which seem to me to be virtually synonymous (Nockels, 1930).
Anonymous
#98. Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
Robert McChesney
#99. Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.
Bettany Hughes
#100. As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
David Dinkins
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