Quotessence
Home / Topics / Public Servants Quotes

Public Servants Quotes

Browse 101 quotes about Public Servants.

Related topics

PeopleGovernmentShouldIfsLawMenPresidentThinking

Public Servants Quotes

“Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.”

PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensKidsPassionFocusFailingGroupsSpecialYouthSucceedOfficeClintonFocusedServantEmpoweringServingChicagoPublic LifeServing OthersSuburbsPublic ServantsMethodists
Author:Tim Kaine
Create image

“I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.”

ShouldSchoolLawPresidentWatchesTeacherWifeTelevisionGrewGrew UpGood ThingsMy WifeServantCaptainsJaneLaw SchoolPublic ServantsJack Kennedy
Author:Dick Gephardt
Create image

“You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila Bair. [She] has taken eight percent of the deposits in the United States and seamlessly moved those over to sound institutions which in turn have gotten more capital, ended up, it's been a magnificent job.She'll never get a golden parachute or any severance pay or anything. She's done a great job. We've got some great public servants. We have I think the right people in there to get the job done, and then they need more tools.”

PeopleThinkingNeedsPersonsStatesDoneJobsTurnsSoundUnitedPayUnited StatesTakenWonderfulHeardPercentToolsInstitutionsMovedEightGoldenServantMagnificentViewersGreat JobDepositsParachutesPublic ServantsGet The Job DoneWonderful PersonSheila
Author:Warren Buffett
Create image

“I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.”

ThinkingKnowsPresidentChallengesNumbersEffortProgressTrumpThreatHearingDefenseChiefsServantSatPresident ObamaSecretaryOnly TimeCommandersOutstandingChairmanStandpointAdviserCommander In ChiefPublic ServantsIsilGreat Progress
Author:Samantha Power
Create image

“Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.”

CountryGovernmentEyeImpossibleCitizensCircumstancesWasteDistanceAffairDetailsCorruptionOur CountryAgentsServantInvitesConstituentsRenderingPlunderPublic ServantsDetection
Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
Create image

“Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat.”

RealityPoliticalLibertyEconomyPolicyFineEconomicsCatIndependentInstitutionsStriveLibertarianServantAgencyTunesFedsSelflessLibertarianismFoundingMonetaryPublic ServantsMonetary PolicyNon Political
Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
Create image

“One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.”

MenMindMayMomentsAmericaEvilParentPresidentUniversalDown AndRewardsServantThat MomentIdolsDistrustFragmentsDownfallBenefactorsPublic ServantsHigh Places
Author:Charles Dickens
Create image

“We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.”

IfsMenNeedsHeartMeanStatesHandsAgeTodayRememberValuesChurchReligiousBalanceSeparationPresidentialServantTyrantsChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateFree ManPublic ServantsReligious Values
Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
Create image

“Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.”

IfsMenYearsStillsStatesFactsShowsFeelingsPassionNationsUnitedDealsWatchesUnited StatesRecordsCallingFemaleArgumentCalmDefeatSillyAdmireServantChairsSenateSenatorsCommitteesVeteranSelectOld YouHystericalGirlyCalm DownPublic Servants
Author:Dianne Feinstein
Create image

“Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.”

IfsWellsLittlesDoeGovernmentGreaterTruth IsFunctionIntentionServantMore MoneyPrivate SectorPublic Servants
Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
Create image