Hillary Clinton Quotes

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

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

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

I grew up to believe in public service. It is in the core of who I am.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

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.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person.

I think public life for me has a slightly didactic role, OK.

The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it.

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

There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.

I'm most interested in public service. I think that's something that I got from being part of my family, which is such an honor.

An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.