Top 1200 Public Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

I'm most interested in public service. I think that's something that I got from being part of my family, which is such an honor.

The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records, without proven capability in public service, without tested beliefs and at least apparently under the influence of a foreign power, such people are screened out by major parties.

Comey is an extraordinarily gifted man who has contributed much during his many years of public service.

I'm very goal-oriented. I do see myself doing something in public service.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.

Retired public service workers make up the backbone of the middle class in so many of our communities.

In my years in public service, I have advocated for reforms to our unforgiving and vindictive legal system.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life.

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow. When every company's service is shoddy, doing a few things well can earn you a reputation as the customer's savior. But when a competitor emerges from the pack as a service leader, you have to do a lot of things right. Suddenly achieving service leadership costs more and takes longer. It may even be impossible if the competition has too much of a head start. The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding service.

My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.

For me, getting young people engaged in politics and public service is really one of the most fun things that I get to do.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

For me, there can be no higher public service than serving as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

Everyone should think seriously about public service at some point.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

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

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that service, why should you keep my information?

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.

You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy.

One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

Antiques Roadshow' is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does 'Question Time.'

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

The PML-N is committed to public service mission, and it will continue to outcome every hurdle in our way.

I'm not in public service, nor do I ever plan to be, but I give back in my own way.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

From a personal perspective, because I'm on a watchlist and went through years of trying to find out why, of having the government refuse to confirm or deny the very existence of such a list, it's so meaningful to have its existence brought into the open so that the public knows there is a watchlist, and so that the courts can now address the legality of it. I mean, the person who revealed this has done a huge public service and I'm personally thankful.

Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

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 and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.

Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.

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

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

The Granite State has a long and proud tradition of public service, and we have to ensure that it stays that way for generations to come.