Civil Service Quotes:

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

- Ronald Reagan

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Military, Work, Government, Income Tax, Civil Service

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Hippie, Law, Bases, Civil Service

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

- Alexander Ostrovsky

topic: Tape, Paper, Red, Civil Service, Red Tape

There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

source: Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 14, 1879.

topic: Government, Long, Office, Civil Service, Engaged

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

- Tony Benn

topic: Moving, Wind, Politics, Civil Service

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

- Shirley Williams

topic: British, Civil Service

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

- David Frum

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: Real, Independent, Stronger, Civil Service

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

- Antony Jay

source: Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

topic: Facts, Exile, Civil Service, Residence

So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I forget — so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive

- Ramachandra Guha

source: Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan

topic: Song, Writing, Army, Hindi, Civil Service

So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.

- Gene Sharp

topic: Army, Sacrifice, Government, Civil Service

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

topic: Giving, Principles, May, Civil Service, Drafting

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

- Alain Badiou

topic: Ignorance, Media, Television, Civil Service, Trade Unions

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

- Derek Wilson

topic: Leader, Rothschild, World, Civil Service

For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.

- Stephen Harper

topic: Rip, Men, Law, Civil Service

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

- Dan Aykroyd

topic: Jobs, Firsts, Railway, Civil Service

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

- Walter Lippmann

source: Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.454, Harvard University Press

topic: Ocean, Men, Thinking, Civil Service

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

- Paul Weller

topic: Royal, Establishment, Royal Family, Civil Service

Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and Congressional ethics bodies, as well as the career civil service.

- Anne Applebaum

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Careers, Government, Body, Civil Service

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

- Honor Blackman

topic: Father, Rain, Holiday, Civil Service, Pouring Rain

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

- Ed Balls

topic: Strong, Party, Gold, Conservative Party, Labour Party

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

- Paul Merton

source: "I think I'm sane" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

topic: Morning, Monday, Thinking, Monday Morning, Civil Service

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

- Nicholas Royle

topic: Jobs, Government, Together, Belgians, Civil Service

When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.14, Beacon Press

topic: Ghetto, Men, White, Civil Service, Allotments

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

topic: Reform, Thorough, Should, Civil Service

One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

topic: Party, Political, Suffering, Civil Service, Great Victory

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Party, Political, Reform, Civil Service

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

- Ed Balls

topic: Government, London, Next, Civil Service, Treasury

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

- Pete Best

topic: Years, Odd, Spending, Civil Service

In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.

- George Grosz

source: George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

topic: Art, Historical, Age, Civil Service