Kevin de Leon Quotes

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

My life has told me that I do owe another human being. I owe him part of my life. That's why I'm in politics.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.

I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

I am not in politics to make more money.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

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

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

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.

Government does not have a monopoly on compassion.

Use power to help people.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

The trust that goes with public service is a heavy burden on those who would lead us.

If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.