Richard Crossman - Diaries of a Cabinet Minister

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The Civil Service is profoundly deferential — 'Yes, Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!'

Richard Crossman

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Richard Crossman

[To strip away] the thick masses of foliage which we call the myth of democracy.

Richard Crossman