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Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting. — Kal Penn

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service. — Jesse Jackson

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes. — Bob Kerrey

Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor? — Sunday Adelaja

A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself. — Jack Abramoff

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

The public service is not a serial child-snatcher — Anthony Douglas

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. — Richardson Wright

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized. — Victor Ponta

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. — Junius

Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service. — J.R. Ward

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

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service. — Grover Cleveland

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion. — Franz Grillparzer

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

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. — Lee H. Hamilton

My whole life has been dedicated to public service. — Leon Panetta

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. — Elliott Abrams

I was a total introvert who did not belong in public. It was my service to everyone. — Tiffany King

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it. — Bettany Hughes

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service. — Douglas Wilder

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone

While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service. — John McCain

I was born into public service. — Janice Hahn

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service. — Hillary Clinton

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs. — Samantha Power

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for? — H.M. Forester

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service. — Alexander Payne

Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service. — Michael Gove

One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again. — Barack Obama

It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man. — Agatha Christie

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

I certainly feel a strong call of public service. — Chelsea Clinton

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. — Jonathan Haidt

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I believe that as public servants, we have a shared goal - to deliver to Americans the service they deserve and expect. — Todd Park

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

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. — Oswald Chambers

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

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family. — Bill Drayton

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

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise. — Konosuke Matsushita

Corporations have to be responsive to price signals. We are not public service. — Naomi Klein

He was convinced that public service and private misery were inextricably linked. — John Ferling

Stopping bad things is a significant public service. — Ted Cruz

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered. — Ulysses S. Grant

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation. — Joseph P. Kennedy III

The only justification of private property," said Orren Boyle, "is public service. — Ayn Rand

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

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service. — Stewart Udall

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. — Tony Blair

If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity. — David Jaber

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. — Shirley Temple

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period. — Edward Whitacre Jr.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community. — Bob Schieffer

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law. — Brian Sandoval

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service. — Ronald Reagan

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. — Charles R. Swindoll

I have had a career in public service. — Scott McClellan

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine. — Max Burns

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service. — John Adams

These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged. — Grover Cleveland

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps. — Phil Klay

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. — Isaac Newton

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. — Clay Shirky

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile. — William Jones

suggestion of public service, even — Anthony Powell

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore — L.J.Smith

Public service is my motto. — Al Capone

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

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service. — Antonio Villaraigosa

Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival. — Congressman X

Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services. — Gordon Brown

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service. — Marco Rubio

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. — Thomas Jefferson

The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants. — Steven Magee

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up! — Rick Riordan

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does. — Warren Beatty

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service. — James Cash Penney

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation. — Margaret Chase Smith

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service. — Linda Ronstadt

I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service. — Beeban Kidron

Public service is good for you, — Jim Flaherty

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow. — Thomas E. Mann

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97. — Benigno Aquino III

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. — Abraham Lincoln

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in. — Joseph P. Kennedy III

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins

So had begun and had ended a sincere effort to be of public service on the part of a well-intentioned but unreflecting and over-comfortable — Anton Chekhov

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

I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country. — David Cameron

It was concern for the welfare of children that got me into public service in the first place. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

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. — Pete Visclosky

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. — Nathan Hale