Mark Esper Quotes

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a personal goal.

Sacrifice is a leader who puts the needs of millions of others before his own, who can forgo ego and pride in order to do what he promised he would. It's rising above pettiness and partisanship for the good of the country.

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

I have only you, the people of Belarus, and I will serve to the last of my days.

The men and women who serve in the armed forces are great role models.

So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.

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

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll 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.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

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.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

I've always believed the mission is greater than the man.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.