I have spent 30 years working with police officers, doing everything I can to help them do their jobs, honoring the sacrifices they make every day.

I don't have a vested interest in a particular political career or a particular political office. My job is to do everything that I can to create an America and a world that we can live in and that we...

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.

I'm on a mission to restore trust in our government and to build a system that works for the people.

I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.

In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn't. The results are very much on display, and...

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

I have commissioners who had very good jobs, making good salaries, and gave up something to work for the state.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

I've always believed, since my first time running for office, that good government is good politics.

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

As Public Advocate for the City of New York, I have a duty to speak truth to power and do what is best for our City and its residents.

I have dedicated myself to the development of the state and hardly get time to spend with my family.

I look forward to continuing to serve the people of New York and making our state a safer place to live, work and raise families for many years to come.

I am going to give the moral support of the presidency to the police and firemen.

People deserve to see a governor who is hustling every day.

You don't need to wear a politician's garb to serve the public.

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

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.

There will be far greater accountability, dramatically improved access, responsiveness, and expanded care options, but the Department of Veterans Affairs will not be privatized under my watch.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

I have a very clear, genuine vision about what political work should be, what politics and politicians should contribute to the nation.

I'm a former prosecutor. And for me, the integrity of the justice system is all about the fact that these men and women go to work every day to be there for our country.

I guess my goal is to be the fittest mayor in the country.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of...

Many veterans in Mississippi struggle with the bureaucratic process of the Veterans Administration.

Everything we do in state government, we do with a shared purpose: to Empower People, Improve Lives and Inspire Success. Combined with our shared values of gratitude, curiosity, humility and courage,...