Quotes About Service

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

Country comes before politics.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

I hate politicians. I hate politics. But if I start to go into politics, I think I believe that I can serve more, I can help more people.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

Politics is not about power.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.