Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Public Service was never meant to be an easy living.

Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It comes in a thousand colours, but the common denominator is: it's not about me - it's about we.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

I want to serve the people.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

Join cooperatively with one another, put aside self-interest, and take on service to the public …

We must take man as we find him, and if we expect him to serve the public we must interest his passions in doing so.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

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

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.

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

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.

I am an old public functionary.