Quotes About Community

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.

If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

Public schools have given so much to our family - I've been proud to fight for them as a state senator and lieutenant governor.

Our schools have made our state great, and we have to make our public schools the best they can be.

We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing, as my colleague and friend Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. We need a Green New Deal for Cities, as my friend Cori Bush has proposed. And we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

Kentucky's first responders and fire fighters are true public servants who keep our communities safe.

Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.

Everyone should think seriously about public service at some point.

Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

I came from a family where public service and giving back was a prerequisite.

I've always believed that what's best for our kids is what's best for our state. That's why I've dedicated my life to public service, working as an educator, a school administrator, a state superintendent, and now as a candidate for governor.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

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

I was raised in a family dedicated to public service.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I'm not in public service, nor do I ever plan to be, but I give back in my own way.

Sometimes you're going to run because you want to elevate an issue. Sometimes you're going to run because you want to do public service, and it's a way to not only tell the community what you care about what you want to achieve, but you're making a commitment.

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

I am drawn to public service.