Nancy Pelosi Quotes

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.

I will be president for all South Koreans.

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

It has been my philosophy all my life that good government is good politics.

If they think its such a sacrifice to go into public service, then they should stay the heck out.

A professional politician's first duty is to appeal to the forces that unite us .... It is our obligation to resolve issues—not to create them.

You have come here by the sovereign will of the people to cooperate with me in carrying out the mandate recently pronounced at the polls.

I cannot run the political machine. I have enough on my hands without that. It is the people's business.

The leader is supposed to represent the community, the public good. He's supposed to be the focal point and the guide and the inspiration, and to represent a concern for the public good. The trouble is, the tragic problem is, very often, when you are a leader and pursue the public good, it may be at the expense of your private interests in a very drastic way

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people, and it's not for sale.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or party.

A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

As a patriotic American, I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfil my commitment to work on behalf of the American people.

For me politics is an opportunity to serve the country.