Top 1200 Public Servants Quotes & Sayings

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

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.

The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.

In India, all public servants employed by the central or a state government or any other public authority under their control are required under the relevant civil service rules to submit returns of movable and immovable assets owned by them and their immediate family.

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

The Science Council of Japan is a government organization and operates with a roughly Yen1 billion budget annually. And appointed members become public servants.

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

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

Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

Public servants should be focused on serving the public - not any special interest group, and good governance should be an expectation - not an exception.

The area I hope we can learn most from Singapore is in the productivity and efficiency of its public servants.

A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.

If public servants are freely allowed to take up lucrative post retirement jobs with companies to whom they have awarded contracts while they were in government, it would open up an easy way for companies to bribe public servants by offering them lucrative post retirement jobs.

... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.

The safety of our citizens is my top priority, and to that end, Louisiana needs our very best public servants working to implement innovative public safety measures across state agencies and throughout Louisiana.

Sick leave should be used to cover the costs of paying people who work in the public service who are sick, and that we can deliver that to our public servants while making it affordable for Canadian taxpayers.

I spent 19 years as a local government official; I spent two years in the Iowa Senate; my daughter is a public school teacher. We're all counting on IPERS. The public servants are counting on the system they were promised when entering public service.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In fact, public debt does the exact opposite - it relieves private debt.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

As public servants, we constantly strive to be the best for the people of Missouri.

After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

I'm suggesting that the prohibition on people who survive on money coming from government, that includes pensioners and public servants, standing for Parliament - it's absurd.

The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.

I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support if they call out corruption.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

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.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

We have tried to remind Government servants that they are servants of the public and have restored discipline in Central Government offices. I have done a small thing, one that appears small from outside. I regularly interact with officers over tea; it is part of my working style. Philosophically, I feel that the country will progress only if we work as teams. This is the only way we can successfully develop the country.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.