John McCain Quotes

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his 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.

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

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

If you want to serve in a Trump administration, you're going to serve this country, not yourself.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

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

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

I have a world of respect for Congressman Dold and the service he's given to our country.

It's a great privilege to be asked to help the country - even if it occasionally comes with some degree of criticism.

When you serve the country selflessly, that is your greatest contribution to the country.

I'm here to serve the country.

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

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

I just want to serve Colombia.

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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?

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

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.