Michelle Kwan Quotes

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

There are a lot of ways to serve and only one is being president.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

I've found my sweet spot here in public service.

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

Sometimes you're going to run because you want to elevate an issue. Sometimes you're going to run because you want to do public service, and it's a way to not only tell the community what you care about what you want to achieve, but you're making a commitment.

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

Let's start with a basic question: Do we, as a country, want our most highly qualified employees from the private sector to pursue public service? The answer, I would imagine, should be yes.