Civil Servants Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
— Tony Blair
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and…
— James Cameron
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The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful…
— Francois Truffaut
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Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up…
— Eleanor Smeal
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Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the…
— Richard V. Allen
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Civil servants take forever to do anything.
— Joseph Wambaugh
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Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial…
— Louis Leakey
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I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that…
— Marilyn Johnson
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed…
— Karl Marx
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Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government…
— Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
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There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action,…
— Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside…
— Anthony Holden
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One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
— Byron Dorgan
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As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did…
— Gustav Stresemann
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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 likely to predict…
— Matt Ridley
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Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
— Harriet Harman
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply…
— Yochai Benkler
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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are…
— Daniel Akaka
Who Wrote These Civil Servants Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Civil Servants Quotes as follows: