Quotes About Service

My dad was a cop.

My father was a cop.

As a kid, I always thought of being a cop or an army man.

I would not want to be a cop.

When you play a cop, it's a different feeling altogether.

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

Being a candidate who doesn't take corporate PAC money forced me to be accountable to the people I serve and to meet them where they are.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.

I was previously the chairman of the Jurong East Town Council and South West CDC.

My job is simply to give advice, to be a counselor to our nation's leaders.

I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.

One of my favorite courses to teach is when we go to the Air Force. We've done a few at Air Force bases. What's great about that is that it's a one-week course. It's five days and we work with them for about eight hours a day. We're not only teaching them self-defense, but we're also teaching them how to teach it on base to others.

When I put on my Marine cover, I'm a Marine, and I act accordingly.

Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

I think that our country would probably be better-served if we had people that were wearing work boots... crafting legislation.

I like people. Listen, if you're a hotelier, if you're a creative person, and you're working with the things that I do, then you have to like people; otherwise, you simply can't get anywhere.

I don't care about power. I don't care about credit.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.