#servant

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#called #find #good #hard #politicians

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#here #humble #i #people #prophet

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 de Mandeville

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#al #american #american dream #attorney #attorney general

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

#get #important #just #need #people

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#fell #i #kind #living #public

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#bit #blunder #book #boy #comes

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#both #children #each #family #joyful

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ↗

— William Penn

#between #children #his #love #man

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #basically #become #been #big