Civil servants Quote by Joseph Wambaugh Download Open image “Civil servants take forever to do anything.” — Joseph Wambaugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil servants Forever Hippie Servant
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in… — Anonymous 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 acquire expertise… — Dominic Cummings 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
If every civil servant does his job perfectly, then I am sure the world will be a better place. — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
“You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity,… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
“Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn’t live long enough to know how right he was.” — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. — Alan Clark 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 they have… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.' — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to persist at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
“One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
