As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.
I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!
You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy.
