Government and Public Service
- George Wildman Ball (1926) was U.S. Under Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He was briefly United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- David E. Miller (1980) was elected five times as an Illinois state representative and was the 2010 Democratic nominee for Illinois comptroller.
- John Edward Porter (1953) was an United States Congressman representing Illinois's 10th congressional district (1980–2001).
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Famous quotes containing the words government and, government, public and/or service:
“I don’t know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)
“For the people in government, rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)