The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams 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
There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics. — Dominic Cummings 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
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
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
The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete. — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
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
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
I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will… — Ed Balls 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
“Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and… — Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay 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
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 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
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
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
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime… — Anonymous 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
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
“Absolutism reigned not just in much of Europe but also in Asia, and similarly prevented industrialization during the critical juncture created by… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“I consider myself a “social ecologist,” concerned with man’s man-made environment the way the natural ecologist studies the biological environment…the discipline itself… — Peter F. Drucker 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
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately… — Walter Lippmann 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
“Leonard Woolf was two years older than Virginia, whom he had first met in 1901 in the rooms of her brother Thoby… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its… — 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
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
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
I challenge the Government to come clean on the cost of Brexit. The reason they can't look us in the eye, it's… — Jo Johnson 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
“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
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