Ron DeSantis Quotes

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

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.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

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

I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

I've found my sweet spot here in public service.

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.