Quotes About Service

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.

Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.