We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. — Michael O'Leary 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
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
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
The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The civil servants that serve at the NSC are of the highest caliber with extraordinary expertise. — Andy Kim 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
“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
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
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
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism… — Louis Leakey 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
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
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
Some MPs, some very senior civil servants and others, are basically conspiring - and I use the word deliberately - in order… — Mark Francois 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
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 don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no… — Anne Applebaum 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
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once… — Anthony Holden 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
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
“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
“Yes, but all that’s needed is to break reciprocity,” he answered. “By controlling information, making sure it flows one way. Take over… — David Brin 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
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
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
“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
“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
“Many historians, many sociologists and psychologists have written at lenght, and with deep concern, about the price that Western man has had… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils.” — Lionel Esher Copy Share Image
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil. — Winston Churchill 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
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