Nell Carter Quotes

Citizenship is not a transaction where you put your taxes in and take your services out. It is a relationship.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time … to the making of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his government … a small percentage of his net profits.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

I have always been very open about my respect for public service.

I am drawn to public service.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.

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

Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.