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

Government, Someone, Service

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

Law, Service, Until

The civil service are risk averse.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Service, Risk, Civil

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life, Heart, Energy

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

Business, Political, Control

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

Work, Morning, Service

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
John Hutton

Best, Service, Both

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper

Strong, Loyalty, Law

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

Rain, End, Father

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
Charles Edison

After, Service, Last

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

Strong, Service, Times

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

Business, After, Service

It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.
Gus O'Donnell

Work, Government, Job

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

Service, Fact, Civil

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