Quotes About Service

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

My job is to make certain that I've done what I was asked and my department has done what we were asked to do by the president and the first lady and the State Department. I believe that we accomplished that.

But at the end of the day, I want people to say that I played a major role in restoring people's confidence in the ability of state government to be on their side, to fight for them, and again - I'll say it again - to get things done.

Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me today.

State government is filled with dedicated, diligent professionals.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

History will do what it always does. It will make ignorant statements, in retrospect, seem shortsighted and discriminatory, and the women who will serve their country bravely in the jobs that are now opening up will prove them wrong. Just like we always have.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.

The post of honour is a private station.

In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

Radio stations provided a service. They weeded out the stuff that no one should ever have to even think about. Now, they made mistakes and they made mistakes with me even but, by and large, they provided a service. They were an editor.

The economy should serve man, not statistics.

If the public has given us stature, we must also be answerable to them.

I realize how rare it is for someone like me to reach this level. So I'm using my stature in basketball to help other people. I'm more than happy to do it.

Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.

Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.