Joe Sestak Quotes

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

It's like I learned in the military: the officers always ate last. When you're responsible for people, that's how it should be.

In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to have accepted this arduous employment, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.

If you want to serve in a Trump administration, you're going to serve this country, not yourself.

I never really sought out the captaincy at any stage in my career. Now that it has been handed to me, I would obviously like to do it justice and keep performing well. The day I stop performing will be the day I happily relinquish the role.

Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.

Look at my record. I have done my duty.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.