Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

I confess that I desire to be reelected. God knows I do not want the labor and responsibility of the office for another four years. But I have the common pride and want my past four years of administration and endorsed.

In short, I will never allow partisanship to undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance. If that earns me enemies in Washington or at the State Department, then so be it.

My view is that I'm best able to serve my state and my country where I am.

I cannot be expected to behave like a film star when I have decided to serve my people. They have voted for me with expectations, and I cannot take them for granted.

I would love to be a public servant to this great state, and I would like to leave everything on the field. Give 110 percent to the state, and we'll see where it takes me.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states' rights rhetoric.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

The Never Trumpers, no matter what is learned about Hillary Clinton, they will not vote for Trump.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.