Jacob J. Lew Quotes

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

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

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 certainly feel a strong call of public service.

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

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

I am drawn to public service.

From the moment I became an established international cricketer I always had a strong feeling that I should be doing some 'good' while I had that profile, using it to try and make a difference.

I grew up to believe in public service. It is in the core of who I am.

Everyone should think seriously about public service at some point.

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.

Usually I try to represent my community and my culture the best that I can, but I go about every day just trying to represent my family. I'm just trying to make a difference out in the world. I don't even look at, necessarily, just the Latin community, I'm looking at everything in general.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

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

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.