Samora Machel Quotes

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear that the example is set at the top.

Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.

The responsibility of a public official is to make the country work!

It is a privilege to serve the country in the United States Senate and serve the people of New Hampshire. I wake up every day with a sense of purpose.

My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not to those who receive the trust.

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

... we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

The government's intention is to function, to have debates in Parliament, and to work in the interest of the people.

Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere to the central tenets of our democracy - justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

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

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.