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Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter. -- Denis Leary
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking. -- Ronan Farrow
Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much. -- Jason Chaffetz
Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do. -- Charles B. Rangel
Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy. -- Charles Kennedy
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow. -- Solomon Ortiz
I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants. -- Joe Andrew
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. -- Jon Corzine
Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! -- David Pratt
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants. -- Eugene Jarecki
Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important. -- James McAvoy
Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants. -- John Katzman
I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. -- John Major
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. -- Daniel Akaka
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. -- Barbara Boxer
I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why. -- Helen Thomas
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. -- Jonathan Carroll
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. -- Barbara Jordan
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people. -- Wen Jiabao
What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants. -- Chuck Schumer
The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there is a Democrat in the White House, and they are party loyalists and hacks before they are public servants. -- Glenn Greenwald
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Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words. -- Mark McKinnon
Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants. -- Judy Horacek
There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people. -- Thabo Mbeki
Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs. -- Robert Quillen
Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer. -- Harry Houdini
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve. -- Adlai Stevenson I
Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants. -- Bertha Knight Landes
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. -- Grover Cleveland
People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it. -- Mitt Romney
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants -- Tony Judt
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments. -- Henry Howarth Bashford
I believe that as public servants, we have a shared goal - to deliver to Americans the service they deserve and expect. -- Todd Park
A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law. -- Marc Morial
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. -- Grover Cleveland
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world. -- Condoleezza Rice
This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business. -- Mike Pence
Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents. -- Mathew Staver
Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike. -- Hillary Clinton
... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office. -- Frank Pavone

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