In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.' — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are thousands of civil servants. In large part, they are brilliant. They work really hard. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political… — Harriet Harman Copy Share Image
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. — Walter Walker Copy Share Image
We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. — Michael O'Leary 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
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Between 1890 and 1911 there was a 200 percent increase in the numbers of bureaucrats, most of them new appointments. In Austria… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more… — Yochai Benkler 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
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
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
“We do have a grand strategy,” says Zeese, who was the spokesman for Ralph Nader’s 2004 presidential campaign. “Nonviolent movements shift power… — Chris Hedges 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
Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government… — Andrew Mango 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 culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of… — John Bolton 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
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few… — Nicholas von Hoffman 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
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“The separation of mind and body that informs medical practice is also the dominant ideology in our culture. We do not often… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“In this country faith is absolute and universal. The choice, if there is a choice, is made at birth. Everyone believes. For… — Paul Torday 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
“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
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We North Americans are fortunate that our ancestors, frontier colonists and emigrants, were forced to develop for survival a pragmatic, positive attitude… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils.” — Lionel Esher Copy Share Image
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. — George S. Patton 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
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
