Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“On the right, a brigade of trolls. On the left, squabling civil servants. Invasion of zombies. Have I managed to summarize the… — Martijn Benders Copy Share Image
It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
We have civil servants like Ollie Robbins who are very pro-E.U., who have never wanted us to leave and have done everything… — Mark Francois Copy Share Image
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“The difference between civil servants and private businessmen is that when a central planner makes a mistake, he is likely to disrupt… — Paul A. Cantor Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The Midnight Dance of the Universal Desk Sergeant, a performance that is somehow the same whether the precinct house is in Boston… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The president doesn't get an automatic pay raise, so they can't freeze it for him. But it also does extend the pay… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“But his opinion that Sonia should enter politics was also based on his conviction that without a Nehru-Gandhi family member at the… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
“Ostensibly, the most important governance reform was supposed to be the Right to Information (RTI) Act that aimed to impose greater accountability… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
“There are various, centuries-old, true British traditions to secure this aim. 1. All orders and directives to the public are worded in… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“Can it be, thought I, that my sole mission on earth is to destroy the hopes of others? Ever since I began… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“European nation with highest politician/lover ratio: Few European states can hope to compete with France and Italy in this department, and the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“The Collectorship of Madna is the seventh post that he has held in eight years. He is quite philosophic about the law… — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
“Though we were all taught to be proud of living in this great parliamentary democracy the civil servants who ran it were… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The civil servants will always be there to look after this country. So don't worry... Any political party taking power will have… — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
“I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Bruce Liddington, who has died aged 70, was the most exotic creature in the Department for Education in the 2000s. In a… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest battles you face as a minister are, in the nicest possible way, with Whitehall and internally with civil… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
“Legislation unfolds incrementally at first. A one-day boycott of Jewish business is proclaimed. Non-Aryan[*] civil servants are forcibly retired. Kosher butchering is… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god.… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Some MPs, some very senior civil servants and others, are basically conspiring - and I use the word deliberately - in order… — Mark Francois Copy Share Image
Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets,… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ...… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
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