Quotes About Service

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

I really was going to run for Congress.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

I have a world of respect for Congressman Dold and the service he's given to our country.

My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

Conscious people fully know who is serving them selflessly and who is trying to create anarchy.

You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

I refused to adopt civilian way of life and slowly influenced my civilian surroundings to do things the military way. My civilian career as an entrepreneur and founder of a defense contracting company has been an extension of my military service.

Look, I went to war, and we knew by survey that when I went to war that we had a certain percentage in that carrier battle group, and when I was on the ground briefly in Afghanistan, that were gay. And now we come back to America and say they don't have equal rights. I've never understood it. This is something where we have to correct this.

Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.

Susan Brooks is a hard-working public servant who has spent her career fighting for Hoosiers. In Congress, she was the first woman from Indiana to chair a committee, and has become one of the most effective lawmakers in Washington: her dedicated work on behalf of her constituents and our state will be missed.

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

The only restaurants in which you're actually happy to be served your entree are the restaurants that serve entrees ungarlanded by Chef's ambition - sushi joints and steakhouses.

Washington was a swamp. It was not somewhere that they believed people would want to go, so the idea was that people got involved as a public service, not to make a career out of it.

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'

I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

I've found my sweet spot here in public service.

Learning to swim is an essential service.

Growing up here in Hawaii, I loved swimming, surfing, and having fun in this paradise we are lucky to call home. But I gradually realized that I was actually happiest when I was doing things for other people, doing things to protect our water, oceans, and beaches.

After 9/11, I didn't look to go sit on the Swiss desk - I stepped up. I was not on the sidelines.

During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.