Civil Service Reform

Famous quotes containing the words civil service reform, civil, service and/or reform:

    Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    Colonel Shaw
    and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
    on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
    propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?
    —Public Service Announcement.

    We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)