Kathleen Turner Quotes

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

I believe in sharing and contributing to society without being in politics.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

Public service is good for you.

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

I want to serve the people.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

The members of the Church, as members of society, have the same right and duty to promote the common good as do other citizens.

You must come forth to any Publick Service, whereof you may be capable, when you are called unto it.

The public interest is more than the sum total of the interest groups.

I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: 'What can I do for my city?' not 'How much can I get out of my city?' I like people to speak now and then in the same devotion to State and Nation.

I want to do things for the people of this country.

Political service is important because it's about helping others help themselves. That was engrained in me from a young child.

I grew up in a family that was committed to service, to reaching out and helping others. That's what inspired me to work in public service.

Community service has been a great thing for me.

There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.