So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
During Manmohan Singh's formative years, it was a matter of great pride to be called to the Indian Civil Service for serving… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the civil service is the way in which people are shuffled such that they either do not… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil… — Antony Jay Copy Share Image
“I've been living like this for a long time - about twenty years. I'm forty now. I used to be in the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
In India, all public servants employed by the central or a state government or any other public authority under their control are… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will… — Stephen Harper 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 B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“My dilemma is that of the civil servant. If a civil servant takes an initiative and things go right with it, he… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“I revisited Raigarh exactly twenty years later,’ he said. ‘I was amazed at the devastation I saw, the extent to which it… — Josy Joseph Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“pass across virtually all areas of public policy. As Frederick Winslow Taylor’s principles of scientific management gained traction, progressives began to see… — Ganesh Sitaraman Copy Share Image
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology,… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda,"… — Jim Geraghty Copy Share Image