Public Service Career Quotes

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

I want to be a public servant, not a politician.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

I'm very goal-oriented. I do see myself doing something in public service.

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.

I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.

[Referring to public service:] Men can make a living with far more satisfaction and many less wounds to the souls at some other calling.

I have had a career in public service.

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

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.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.

He has slipped the surly bonds of public service.

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

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

In 1984, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to serve as a legislative intern in his office in Washington, D.C. Coming from humble beginnings, the experience changed my life and charted me on a path of public service.

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.

I was interested in public service, and looking back at my father, my grandfather and two great-grandfathers, well, yeah, that's what they did, too. And I think public service, like journalism, done right is a really honourable, really important profession.

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

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

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

I was born into public service.

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

I was raised in a family dedicated to public service.