Hastings/government

Famous quotes containing the words hastings and/or government:

“If you can’t get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
—Max Hastings (b. 1945)

“For the people in government, rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)