Rotha Lintorn-Orman Quotes

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people.

National service is America at its best.

How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?

Ask not what your country can do for you——ask what you can do for your country.

I want to do things for the people of this country.

Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

When I hear of nationalism in my country today from the youngsters, I want to sit them down and tell them that flags and songs are not nationalism. Stopping at the traffic signal, opening the door for a lady, doing something for your country is nationalism.

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

For me, any chance to serve Singapore even in its limited capacity... I would be glad to take it up and use it to serve Singaporeans.

When you serve the country selflessly, that is your greatest contribution to the country.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive.

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.

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.

I just want to serve Colombia.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.