Public Service Motivation Quotes

In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a miserably trivial distinction

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

My parents were engineers. In the 1970s, they came to the United States as refugees from Uganda. Seeing everything this country did for my family inspired me to want to give back through public service.

One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.

The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

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.

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.

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