Catherine Cortez-Masto Quotes

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

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

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

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

I did grow up in a household where the narrative was about public service and how are you going to effect change and help people. I'm so glad I grew up around that narrative, but I never had the calling to go out and shake hands and try to get elected.

I think there's a real calling out there for leadership and maybe the Bush family could fill the void. All of us have been bitten by the bug to do something some day in our lives to help others.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

I'm most interested in public service. I think that's something that I got from being part of my family, which is such an honor.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.

There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

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.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.