Jon Huntsman Jr. Quotes

If you love your country, you serve her.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

You’re not saying “No” to me. You’re saying “No” to the presidency and to your country. Hasn’t your country been pretty good to you?

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.

We shall rear them as needed for the Fatherland.

You can serve with anybody for the good of America ... You've never turned your country down. This is not me. This is your country.

Your duty to the Country, is to live for four years.

I would always be happy to serve my country in any way that I was called upon to do.

In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.

When you're asked by the president to serve, it's awfully hard to say no, and I'm loyal.

I'm at my country's disposition.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

I've served my country.

I had to do something for the country.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

I commit myself to serve my country.

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.