“We salute our civil servants, the steel frame of India, for their significant contribution and dedication towards nation building.” – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
"One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle" - Byron Dorgan
“All the power is within you. You can do anything.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to people and the nation.”
“The Civil Servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.” – Indira Gandhi
“Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.” – Mahatma Gandhi
"With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help" - Otto Von Bismark
"A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it" - George S. Patton
"After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil" - Winston Churchill