Van Jones Quotes

When you serve, whether it's here in the House or in the White House or anywhere else, it's a distinct honor and privilege and so that's about the extent of it.

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official.

There is one higher office than President, and I would call that patriot.

There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of office from the hands of his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes when he hands them back.

The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

I have a world of respect for Congressman Dold and the service he's given to our country.

If you want to serve in a Trump administration, you're going to serve this country, not yourself.

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

It's a great privilege to be asked to help the country - even if it occasionally comes with some degree of criticism.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.

When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years, as my social and political consciousness was developing, to live at the epicentre of that dynamic, idealistic, and inspiring moment in U.S. political history, with its ethos of personal and civic responsibility, summed up so succinctly in his exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.