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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. -- Paul Theroux
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it. -- Sargent Shriver
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006. -- Solomon Ortiz
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. -- Sargent Shriver
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. -- Meg Rosoff
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems. -- Sargent Shriver
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. -- Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. -- Sam Farr
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. -- Helen Thomas
The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve. -- Solomon Ortiz
I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps. -- Allen West
I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. -- Kenny Marchant
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad. -- Kenny Marchant
We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe. -- Kenny Marchant
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything. -- Caroline Kennedy
We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale. -- Ginni Rometty
It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps. -- Edward Kennedy
In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans. -- Solomon Ortiz
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. -- Erich Segal
I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. -- Sargent Shriver
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
I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado. -- Mojo Nixon
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. -- Sargent Shriver
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing. -- Paul Theroux
To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion. -- Teresa Heinz
I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at. -- Lindsey Shaw
I grew up on a dairy farm in Southeastern Connecticut, and I went into the Peace Corps right after college. I went to Ghana. I fell in love with Africa and have basically been working in Africa ever since. -- Bruce Wilkinson
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world. -- Sargent Shriver
I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps. -- Jane Fonda
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But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace. -- John F. Kennedy
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. -- Paul Theroux
My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. -- Billy Carter
We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers. -- Cecile Richards
Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps? -- Dennis Prager
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps. -- Camryn Manheim
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess! -- Queen Noor of Jordan
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone. -- Paul Theroux
I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things. -- Paul Theroux
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There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world." -- Queen Noor of Jordan
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away. -- Peter Hessler
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