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He is often impatient with our sluggish government bureaucracy, can at times be very hands-on in resolving issues and problems that are brought to his personal attention, and is always mindful that we are public servants, ali works hard to do the right thing, and never acts, in my observation, for reasons of personal advancement or aggrandizement. – Jeh Johnson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Silicon Valley is becoming Aspen, silicon Valley's becoming a region of rich people and Silicon Valley servants, and Silicon Valley shouldn't be that way. There's not a sense of community. There's not a sense of civic engagement and civic responsibility... – Peter Hero	Found on CNN 9 years ago
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. – Mat Staver	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I am hopeful and confident that very capable public servants with a desire to serve in the Senate will step up as candidates for this important office, i will not be one of them. – Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This injunction binds Judge Don Davis and all his officers, agents, servants and employees, and others in active concert or participation with any of them, who would seek to enforce the marriage laws of Alabama which prohibit or fail to recognize same sex marriages. – Court Judge Callie V. Granade	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is not easy to be humble servants if you see the role of a cardinal as a position of power or superiority. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The police are public servants, not James Bond with a license to kill. – Michael Petty	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness. – Henrik Ibsen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity. – George Sand	added by anonymous 9 years ago
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. – Bernard Mandeville	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. – Walter Lippmann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. – Cicero	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. – Hannah More	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I see, monsieur. The auxiliaries are the servants of the verbs. It's only poor 'avoir' which has to shift for itself. – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. – Socrates	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations. – Wilhelm von Humboldt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The challenge is that CEOs now think like global investors, while the political leadership thinks like local civil servants. Getting the right policies to attract and develop talented labor, capital and diversify the income sources will determine the prosperity and wealth of the people of each nation. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer. – Ayn Rand	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward. – Antigonus of Sokho	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not employ handsome servants. – Chinese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago

He is often impatient with our sluggish government bureaucracy, can at times be very hands-on in resolving issues and problems that are brought to his personal attention, and is always mindful that we are public servants, ali works hard to do the right thing, and never acts, in my observation, for reasons of personal advancement or aggrandizement.

– Jeh Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Silicon Valley is becoming Aspen, silicon Valley's becoming a region of rich people and Silicon Valley servants, and Silicon Valley shouldn't be that way. There's not a sense of community. There's not a sense of civic engagement and civic responsibility...

– Peter Hero

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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.

– Mat Staver

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I am hopeful and confident that very capable public servants with a desire to serve in the Senate will step up as candidates for this important office, i will not be one of them.

– Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This injunction binds Judge Don Davis and all his officers, agents, servants and employees, and others in active concert or participation with any of them, who would seek to enforce the marriage laws of Alabama which prohibit or fail to recognize same sex marriages.

– Court Judge Callie V. Granade

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is not easy to be humble servants if you see the role of a cardinal as a position of power or superiority.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The police are public servants, not James Bond with a license to kill.

– Michael Petty

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

– Henrik Ibsen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

– George Sand

added by anonymous
9 years ago

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

– Bernard Mandeville