Max Burns Quotes

We have given up office, but not our responsibility to serve the nation. We have lost an election, but not our determination.

I have no personal life.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

I do not separate my job and my personal life; therefore, I never work and never rest.

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

Ultimately, I will do my best - whatever is possible - for this great nation.

I've got to do what I've got to do, for me, my family and my kids.

I am always on duty, even when I am at party events or on vacation. I don't complain about it, on the contrary. Time management for candidates without government functions is different than it is for me. No matter where I am, I always have to have my duties as chancellor in mind.

My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

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

I don't take time off.

I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.