Category

Separation of powers

• 12.06.08
  Quotes for 6 December 2008
  Regulation, Separation of powers (1)

  Civil Service Reform Yet during the past 60 years, it has been the civil service (viewed as professional and technocratic) and not political appointees (seen as corrupt or unqualified) that has gained the upper hand in public opinion. Indeed, many senior officials in the federal government would view the very term political as pejorative. -- Paul Musgrave in Slate, 2 December 2008 Have the courage of your inconsistencies So I say to Americans: if you want your young people to develop character, have the courage of your inconsistencies! Excoriate sin, especially in public places, but turn a blind eye to it when necessary. -- ...