I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service. — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape. — Alexander Ostrovsky Copy Share Image
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Jawaharlal Nehru put it sharply: the Indian Civil Service, he said, was ‘neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service’.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned. — Pete Best Copy Share Image
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams Copy Share Image
There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it,… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank… — Ed Balls Copy Share Image
So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we… — Honor Blackman Copy Share Image
“Trouble-strewn India was no longer a rich source of career opportunities for English graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, who for decades had… — Stanley Wolpert Copy Share Image
“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley’s cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up… — Rutherford Birchard Hayes Copy Share Image
“hadn’t even had the guts to say this to Arnie. “Yeah, set up a system that really works, a system that recognizes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“First, relax. ... And my second helpful hint is that you should not try to memorize anything you read in this book.… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
“these fond parents were not blind to the value of education it was that they realized only its external value. That is… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“Davie's hostility to sectarianism, and to religious 'fanaticism', was perhaps part of his appeal. He acknowledged the legacy of Calvinism in his… — Robert D. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The Singapore School's quarrel with the West was partly over the sequence and pace of democratisation. It was acknowledge that certain norms… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
“Goodwill has something in common with each of these categories of love, because goodwill is by definition a love for usefulness of… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“I've been living like this for a long time - about twenty years. I'm forty now. I used to be in the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal… — David Frum Copy Share Image
When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service,… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“That tiny part of your soul that believes in a ‘good government’ ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment… — Jim Geraghty Copy Share Image
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image