Elizabeth Banks Quotes

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

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.

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don't really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

A man who aspires to any high office should have three qualifications: first, he should be prepared to support the constitution of his country; second, he should have a special aptitude for the office he desires; and third, he should have virtue and justice as they are understood by his fellow citizens.

The kind of people we want to be President don’t want to run.

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my life.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.

I work hard every day not only to be a success on the football field and a credit to my team - but to be a good husband, father, son, grandson, teammate - to be the kind of man that is as respected as Walter Payton was.

I am an elected official. I am a parent.

I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.

I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.

I'm just trying to go out there and play the game the right way and lead by example.

In football, and in life, I have always tried to be completely honest and true to myself and my family at all times, and that is what I will continue to do.

He is so true to himself, and so good to other people. Even during tough conversations, I have never worried about him. Because I know Dwane Casey is going to come back tomorrow to try to be better, and I feel the same way. I try to be better, and so I try to be like him that way.

My dad was my role model; he always did the right thing.

Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

Have you ever heard of a club captain who's a bad egg? Me neither.

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.