Leadership Quote by Paul Cellucci

The line is a politician's favorite kind of punctuation: it ends nothing while sounding like it does. "We must also remember that our work is not done" wraps a call to action inside a gentle reprimand. The key word is "remember" - not "do". Cellucci isn't issuing an order as much as nudging a collective conscience, implying that drift, complacency, and selective amnesia are the real enemies. It's a sentence built to keep a coalition intact after a milestone: a bill passed, a crisis stabilized, a campaign won, a ribbon cut. The applause is still echoing, and he is already trying to extend the moment into momentum.

The subtext is managerial. "Our work" flatters listeners into ownership, spreading responsibility so broadly that no single actor can be blamed for slow progress. "Not done" is strategically vague; it makes room for future asks - more funding, another vote, patience with incremental change - without specifying what sacrifice comes next. The "also" matters, too. It suggests a list of achievements already on the table, positioning this as the sober addendum that proves seriousness.

In the late-20th/early-21st-century American political register where Cellucci operated - pragmatic Republican governance, technocratic optimism, post-press-conference cadence - the line functions as continuity rhetoric. It reassures supporters that the project is bigger than one news cycle while quietly defending the limits of what government can deliver in one shot. It's ambition with the volume turned down, designed to sound responsible rather than radical.