Public Service Quotes - Page 9

• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  Samantha Power

  People, Affair, Leap

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• The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Paul Ryan

  Mistake, Fighting, Would Be

  "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand's ideas: in the hot seat again". atlassociety.org. April 30, 2012.

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• I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Motivational, Im Sorry

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• So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Character, Men, Light

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• I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Community, Mind, Important

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.140, Random House

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• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

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• While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

  Henry Waxman

  Military, School, Politics

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• Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

  Bettany Hughes

  Past, History, Stronger

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• I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

  Grover Cleveland

  Believe, Government, Suffering

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

  "The Empire of Business".

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• When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

  Albert J. Nock

  Liberty, May, Libertarian

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• Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Trying, Reform

  "'Times are tough', Blair admits". news.bbc.co.uk. November 3, 2005.

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• The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

  Tony Blair

  Law, Parent, Understanding

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• A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

  John Ralston Saul

  Self, Civilization, Tradition

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• I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Speech at press conference, 17 Nov. 1973, in New York Times 18 Nov. 1973, p. 62

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• The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

  Phil Donahue

  Morning, Fun, Sunday

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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  Frances O'Grady

  Retirement, School, Media

  "Forget 1979. This time we'll unite beleaguered Britain" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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

  David Dinkins

  School, Law, Matter

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• It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Reality, People

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• I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Struggle, Calling, Social

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• Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Taken, Winning, Opportunity

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Children, Educational, Air

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• When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

  Andy Stern

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

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• We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?

  John Ralston Saul

  Office, Accepting, Should

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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