The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film… — Francois Truffaut 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
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
“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
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
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
Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took… — Mahathir Mohamad 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 like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy,… — Guy Ritchie 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
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“The Collectorship of Madna is the seventh post that he has held in eight years. He is quite philosophic about the law… — Upamanyu Chatterjee 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
The Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are another team. The Civil… — Narendra Modi 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
There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
The Covid-19 pandemic has been great for the bosses, by which I mean the CEOs, the senior lawyers, the bankers and the… — Touker Suleyman Copy Share Image
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