Quotes on Public Servants

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

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.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.