Civil servants Quote by Mark Walport

“There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.”

Mark Walport

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Wellcome Trust focuses on supporting outstanding researchers, accelerating the application of research, and exploring medicine in historical and cultural contexts. We believe passionately that…

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In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't…

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We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy…

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Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a…

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If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in…

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The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.

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The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.

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When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to…

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Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy…

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Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

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Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are minimised, it…

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Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no…

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Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

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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.

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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,…

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In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

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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