Kenny Marchant Quotes

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.

My day goes by coordinating things like transport for migrant workers, taking government permissions, organizing food among other things. And I feel very happy and satisfied. If I was shooting, I wouldn't have had all the time in the world. Now, that I have all the time, it is important to give that to the needy.

I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

I want to do something to help people.

We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

I've been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17.

My parents were in the Peace Corps.

The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.