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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't… — Quentin Tarantino 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
“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
“Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to… — Timothy Snyder 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
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
When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Truth loves nothing better than simplicity of truth: that is the lesson Columbe Josse ought to have learned from her medieval readings.… — Muriel Barbery 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
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
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 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
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the… — James Cameron 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
Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were… — Jeremy Corbyn 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
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed… — Marilyn Johnson 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
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The civil servants that serve at the NSC are of the highest caliber with extraordinary expertise. — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
No amount of extra civil servants recruited to deliver Brexit will make up for a lack of rational debate or for political… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I want to thank all of those civil servants, police, Border Force officers and security professionals with whom I have worked and… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants… — Anonymous 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
Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments. — Sanjaya Baru 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
“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
In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
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