“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 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.” MadeImportantSchoolPoliticalGirlNumbersCitiesHalfTeacherStudentsJudgingMembersPercentMen And WomenDoctorsUniversityPostsServantAfghanistanParliamentSmall NumbersCivil ServantsKabulBurqaMembers Of ParliamentUniversity Students Author:Eleanor Smeal
“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 incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.” PeopleGovernmentTeamMajorsPlanningAdministrationServantAgencyDepartmentTemporaryTrustedBureaucracyAcquaintanceGovernment BureaucracyCivil Servants Author:Richard V. Allen
“It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.” ServantHippieCivil Servants Author:Sargent Shriver
“Civil servants take forever to do anything.” ForeverServantHippieCivil Servants Author:Joseph Wambaugh
“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 service in Kenya.” PeopleEasyCriticismArguingServantGovernorsSeniorHippieKenyaCivil Servants Author:Louis Leakey
“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 day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.” Would BeSocialCommunityCasesTeacherInformationNeededComputerPoliceWorkersProtectionServantHistorianStorytellerGuardianLibrarianCivilitySocial WorkerClerksOrganizerTechniciansCivil Servants Author:Marilyn Johnson
“To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.” HeartChildrenPersonsStillsSelfHumanityPoliticsStarsLinesJusticePartyWifeRightsPolicyMembersDemocraticIllCommittedLawyerFatsCivil RightsCupsServantGrantsPaceDesksCaptainsCrewHookChasingMovie StarAlcoholicsDemocratic PartyGrotesquePublic PolicyTinRecoveringPavementBangingAmbulanceHandoutsCivil ServantsRecovering AlcoholicsSquattersDitzyTin Cup Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“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 within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.” CommonCivilizationTaxesPoliceSoldierSeedsListsServantGreekDancerPriestsMuseumsBalletFabulousTaxationGothicSlumberBallet DancerEmbryosCivil ServantsSteeples Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.” PoliticsServantCivil Servants Author:Billy Joel