Bobby Schilling Quotes

I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know that we're going to roll up our sleeves and work on things, and members of Congress are going to sacrifice our own budgets first.

I'm looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.

I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country.

Yes, I introduced the congressional pay cut bill, cutting our salaries by five percent. And I think we have to lead by example.

I have never and never will do anything for the sake of popularity; he that steers by any other compass than his own sense of duty may be popular, but cannot be an honest and ... useful public servant.

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

I took on pension reform, health care reform, and leave reform - all of those tough issues that so many elected officials prefer to kick down the road to the next generation. But that's not who I am. I am not persuaded by what is politically popular but what is best for the citizens of Baltimore.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

I decided there was nothing in Washington as important as one constituent, and I dropped everything when one called.

My life has told me that I do owe another human being. I owe him part of my life. That's why I'm in politics.

A whistle-blower is a public servant of the highest order.

We want to bring back to Washington people who are more interested in public service than they are in private gain.

[Referring to public service:] Men can make a living with far more satisfaction and many less wounds to the souls at some other calling.

The position should not be regarded as permanent to the person. Public service is not the private domain or the private possession of any one person. It is a temporary opportunity for the individual to act for the larger and common good.

I can therefore say, as a Spartan Ambassador to the King of Persia’s Lieutenant, when asked whether he came with a public commission or on his own account: “If successful, for the public; if unsuccessful, for myself.”

That sheriffs and coroners be annually appointed; and that no person shall be capable of holding either of the said offices more than four years successively

The leader is supposed to represent the community, the public good. He's supposed to be the focal point and the guide and the inspiration, and to represent a concern for the public good. The trouble is, the tragic problem is, very often, when you are a leader and pursue the public good, it may be at the expense of your private interests in a very drastic way

John F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." I have never understood why this utterance, which in essence urges everyone to volunteer themselves as unquestioning slaves, guinea pigs and cannon fodder to a grasping state, is quoted with such reverence. What Kennedy should have said is this: “Ask lots of very pointed questions about what your country promises to do for you, and don't forget to ask exactly what it proposes to do to you. Then pick the place that offers the best deal. You will be doing a favour not only to yourself, but potentially to all of mankind.”

The responsibility of a public official is to make the country work!

We must take man as we find him, and if we expect him to serve the public we must interest his passions in doing so.