Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

The civil servants will always be there to look after this country. So don't worry... Any political party taking power will have to work with the civil servants who are very well acquainted with running this country.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

Those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service.

We are the beast of state government.

Political appointees are talented, able people. They are not lepers; they are not diseased.

The city’s [civil service] workforce must be considered part of the solution, not the problem.

I am an old public functionary.

Those of you who end up in public service will come to appreciate the difficulty of wielding the extraordinary power of the government effectively and fairly. Much of this power is housed in the many departments and agencies that are charged with carrying out specific functions of government. Those who do not have daily interactions with a government agency may not realize just how much influence bureaucracies wield.

I think public sector workers, our teachers, our firefighters, our home health workers who work for states, they do God's work. They are some of our most important employees.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

I work in public.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

We are living in an era of transformation where we will all have to reckon with a number of revolutionary changes and challenges for the public sector. In the move towards globalization, the public is becoming more and more knowledgeable about their rights and requirements. As such, the need to revisit our traditional ways of offering public services is inescapable, if we want to ensure the establishment of a more caring public service.

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.

It’s hard to have a better job than the government, where you really do have an opportunity to have a broad reaching impact. Very few private sector jobs are going to offer you that.

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.