Peace Corps Quotes - Page 2

• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Uganda, Phones

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• I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.

  Allen West

  Real, Believe, Marine

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• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Struggle, Hero

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Middle East, World, Might

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• I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

  Jane Fonda

  Hippie, India, Mia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM’ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

  Ginni Rometty

  Ideas, Long Ago, Age

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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• My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixtyeight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for President. I’m the only sane one in the family.

  Billy Carter

  Mother, Running, Brother

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• [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Religious, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

  Camryn Manheim

  Ideas, Long, Actors

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• Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Rocks, Volunteer

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• Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Ideas, Voice

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.117, Penguin

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• Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

  Dennis Prager

  Marine, Marine Corps, World

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• Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  Peter Hessler

  Ambition, Pride, Organization

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• When I was a kid about joining the Peace Corps. It said it was "the hardest job you'll ever love." This is what parenting is, as far as I'm concerned. This is parenting. That is the friggin' Peace Corps. Because you don't love doing this - this is the thing you love the most in your life, it's the best thing you ever do.

  Pat Benatar

  Jobs, Kids, Hardest Job

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

  Cecile Richards

  Volunteer, Abortion, Female

  "Peace Corps Volunteers to Finally Receive Same Abortion Coverage as Federal Employees" by Caitlin Moscatello, www.glamour.com. December 15, 2014.

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• I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.

  Mojo Nixon

  College, Ohio, Colorado

  Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.

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• My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

  Billy Carter

  Mother, Eight, Sixty

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• I moved straight from kindergarten ,at age 4, to graduate school to my position at Lake Forest ,at age 26. No break. No bumming around Europe. No peace corps. No corporate cubicle job. No stint as a Starbucks barrista.

  Davis Schneiderman

  School, Age, Graduates

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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