Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Public Servants - Page 2

Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

We don't just show up at election time; we're there full time.

The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee... The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.

With the Internet and blockchain, everything is changed. It's the future of content.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

Central Park is the most amazing gift. It's incredible. You find new spots, new people, new friends for the dogs.

Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.

It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

I believe that if you want to do a good job at something, then you're always analyzing the job that you've done to see if you can do it better.

I think that Britain's broadband vision needs to be about more people using broadband rather than macho claims about the speed of the technology.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

An energy-dominant America will bring even more hard-working Americans into the high-skill, well-paying jobs and careers the energy sector offers.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

Although we must be prepared for a catastrophic large-scale strike, a cyber armageddon, the reality is that we have been living with a constant barrage of cyberattacks for some time. The trend, I believe, will continue.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.

There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

If Trump expects the Americans who did not vote for him to accept him as president, he needs to show that he accepts all of them as Americans. He needs to show that he understands their concerns and hears their fears.

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all.

In his personal life, Donald Trump shows that even when a family faces difficulties, the role of the father must remain strong - his children are a testament to the fact that a father who remains engaged can overcome many odds and set children on the right path.

Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist.

The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.