Ted Wheeler Quotes

I'm always entrenched in the community. I'm always working with the high schoolers, no matter what school they're at. I'm always in my community.

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

My greatest work comes in the community.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

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

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

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

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front.

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

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.

I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service.

There are a lot of ways to serve and only one is being president.

Getting in the community, working with the kids, was a way that I felt like I could get out and make a change.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.