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I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.