Bobby Bones Quotes

When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.

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

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.

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

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.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

It's been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

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

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.

I'm not in public service, nor do I ever plan to be, but I give back in my own way.

Public service has allowed me to put values my parents taught me into action.

Volunteer service is Dad's true north.

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.

The example set by my grandparents and parents - that of giving one's time, talent, voice and resources, either from one's own home or from the highest office in the land - had a profound effect on me and my siblings.

Good people do fundamental work because they believe in the work.

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.