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• 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
• My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was… — John Hume
• In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.' — Robert A. Heinlein
• A civil servant doesn't make jokes. — Eugene Ionesco
• A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. — George S. Patton
• You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. — Doris Lessing
• 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
• It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant. — Sargent Shriver
• 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
• I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates. — Billy Joel
• My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the… — Hanif Kureishi
• NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not… — Mary Roach

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