Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just…

“Whatand why were never questions for me. How was the only question. When I look back now, I realize that I never thought about…

— Sadhguru

“That tiny part of your soul that believes in a ‘good government’ ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment of the…

— Jim Geraghty

Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and Congressional ethics…

— Anne Applebaum

“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it was confronted…

— Hannah Arendt

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all…

— Arthur Capper

“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its efficiency is…

— Hannah Arendt

“Many observers were disturbed by all the uniformed men striding the White House corridors. In a broad-brush indictment, Charles Sumner disapproved of the way…

— Ron Chernow

Being in opposition takes some getting used to. As a former minister, you don't just lose your job and the enormous resources of the…

— David Lammy

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England,…

— Ed Balls

“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's…

— Auberon Waugh

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

— Paul Weller

“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have…

— Charles Wheelan

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it…

— Charles Edison

I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism.

— Momina Mustehsan

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

— Dan Aykroyd