Dominic Grieve Quotes

The attorney doesn't decide what to do; the client ultimately decides what to do.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

The Attorney General's ultimate client must be the people of the United States

The Solicitor General is responsible neither to the man who appointed him [the President] nor to his immediate superior [the Attorney General.] The Solicitor General has no master to serve except his country.

A government job is an occasion for public service, not special privilege. The undivided loyalty to the public interest required of the governorship makes it inappropriate to keep the profusion of gifts that arrive every day at this office.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

Those who do not serve the public interest should not hold a public license.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

The job of government is to govern. They ought to get on with it.

The anticorruption campaign has created a lot of resentment and disincentives among public officials. Political discipline is to repress that resentment and to recreate an incentive for public service.

Being attorney general has truly allowed me to be a voice for justice for the people of Illinois and oftentimes the country - and I love it.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.