Lee Iacocca Quotes

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

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

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.

Citizenship consists in the service of the 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.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

I think there are many ways to serve your country.

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

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.

My dad really loves and really helps his country, so I think leading the country would be the best thing for Liberia.

Elective office is one of many ways to serve the community and the country. It's one that I would consider at some point.

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.

Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.

I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.

This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

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?

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

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

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