Gordon Brown Quotes

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

I'm very proud and happy to be serving the people of Arkansas and the Senate, and I look forward to continue to serve them.

I see my task as serving the majority of people. The question is, how do you find out what they want, how best to serve them? My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because, at heart, I am one of them.

I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.

Residents expect their state leaders to deliver solutions for the people of their state.

I want to be that President who serves the American people the way they deserve to be served.

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't like talking about myself, I don't like the whole atmosphere of how people are judged in American politics too often as to what you say instead of what you do. And so for me it's always about what can I do for you? How can I help you?

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

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

What I would ask the leaders to do is to better understand the American people. I would insist that the leaders have town meetings and meet the people and listen to them and find out what is on their minds.

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you're honored by others.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.