The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service. — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service,… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape. — Alexander Ostrovsky Copy Share Image
For Americans that are sick and tired of politics and partisanship - well, the civil service, public service, that's the answer. — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism. — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
“Jawaharlal Nehru put it sharply: the Indian Civil Service, he said, was ‘neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service’.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it,… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank… — Ed Balls Copy Share Image
“There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley’s cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“That tiny part of your soul that believes in a ‘good government’ ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment… — Jim Geraghty Copy Share Image
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to… — Derek Wilson 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
“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“It seems to have been meeting Methodist missionaries from India that inspired Margaret with her ambition, curious in someone little more than… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up… — Rutherford Birchard Hayes Copy Share Image
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
“Many observers were disturbed by all the uniformed men striding the White House corridors. In a broad-brush indictment, Charles Sumner disapproved of… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I respect the Forces... but civil services also have a contribution to make. They are there to bridge administration with Forces. They… — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
“hadn’t even had the guts to say this to Arnie. “Yeah, set up a system that really works, a system that recognizes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“First, relax. ... And my second helpful hint is that you should not try to memorize anything you read in this book.… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“Davie's hostility to sectarianism, and to religious 'fanaticism', was perhaps part of his appeal. He acknowledged the legacy of Calvinism in his… — Robert D. Anderson Copy Share Image
“these fond parents were not blind to the value of education it was that they realized only its external value. That is… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“The Singapore School's quarrel with the West was partly over the sequence and pace of democratisation. It was acknowledge that certain norms… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
“Living through the Blitz, edited by MO’s Tom Harrisson, makes clear just how much the ‘1945’ we now consume is a construct,… — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Whatand why were never questions for me. How was the only question. When I look back now, I realize that I never… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned. — Pete Best Copy Share Image
I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
“Thanks in part to the commission, Kennedy issued an executive order ending sex discrimination in the federal civil service. In 1963 he… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
“you’ve got to learn to think like a state if you work in the Civil Service. Organizations are not human beings and… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of… — John Reith, 1st Baron Reith Copy Share Image
