Quotes About Service

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.

If you don't know anybody who is out of work, who needs housing, if you've never taken a call at 2 o'clock in the morning from a neighbor who is running out of heating fuel in the middle of February, then you don't know what you do in a tough situation. To me, that's the measure of whether you should be in public office.

As public officials, we have a duty to protect all of our communities and our number one priority must be saving lives.

Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

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

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

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.

Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

I believe that as public servants, we have a shared goal - to deliver to Americans the service they deserve and expect.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

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

Since taking the oath of office as our state's 36th Governor, I've met so many dedicated state workers that take great pride in being hard-working public servants.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

As someone who has put my life on hold, my personal life on hold, for Parliament and for public service for over a decade and a half, I really got to a culmination point where I had to make a decision to have more normality in my life, or sacrifice that entirely for a campaign that was going to be all consuming.

I grew up to believe in public service. It is in the core of who I am.

Everyone should think seriously about public service at some point.

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.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

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.

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