Michael Nutter Quotes

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.

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?

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

I think I've been a great citizen.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.