Public Service Quotes - Page 11

• Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Soldier, Loyal, Foundation

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• 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.

  Laura Poitras

  Meaningful, Government, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try to catch trend reversals. Therefore, we tend to stabilize rather than destabilize the market. We are not doing this as a public service. It is our style of making money.

  George Soros

  Style, Trying, Use

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Anger, Helping Others

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

  Janice Hahn

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service.

  Peggy Noonan

  Accomplishment, Way, Return

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• One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

  Sean Hannity

  Life Lesson, Lessons, Want

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• In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

  Chuck Todd

  Simple, Politician, Ted Kennedy

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• I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service. And for the last 17 years, ever since my husband started running for president, I have been in the spotlight, working hard. And this job is incredibly all-encompassing. So I think I'm looking forward to maybe taking some time off

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Husband

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• A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Careers, People, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Buddhist, Giving

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• The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

  Moshe Dayan

  Ideas, Hands, Gaza Strip

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• In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

  Lou Barletta

  Cities, Differences, People

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• My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

  Patrick Schwarzenegger

  Mom, Dad, Ideas

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• In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.

  Michel'le

  Country, Jobs, Law

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• My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

  Madeleine Albright

  Regret, Years, Community

  "Madam Secretary". Book by Madeleine Albright, en.wikiquote.org. 2003.

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• I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

  Christopher Meloni

  Acting, Matter, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

  Warren Beatty

  Running, Thinking, Doe

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• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Retirement, Feet, People

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• The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity.

  Michael Schur

  Objectivity, People, News

  "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 26, 2011.

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• 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.

  Douglas Wilder

  Moving, Term, Obligation

  "Then & Now: Douglas Wilder". www.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Thinking, Knows

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• 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.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Men, Numbers, People

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• I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Two, Years, Long

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 531), March 24, 1971.

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• A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.

  Ellen Willis

  Government, Ideas, Lines

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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