As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet…

An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it's hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect…

— Ro Khanna

We have civil servants like Ollie Robbins who are very pro-E.U., who have never wanted us to leave and have done everything in their…

— Mark Francois

“One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part…

— Bertrand Russell

As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to…

— Amy Klobuchar

“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to persist at…

— Aldous Huxley

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good…

— Chester A. Arthur

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

— Robert A. Heinlein

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,…

— Patrick Kavanagh

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

— Byron Dorgan

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a…

— Mancur Olson

“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

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

— Alan Clark

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no…

— Winston Churchill

“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one…

— Marilyn Johnson