I know it may be hard to imagine given how broken and gridlocked our politics truly are, but from the White House to, yes, Congress, the government is filled with hard-working, idealistic public servants working incredibly hard on tough issues, trying to make people's lives better and move the country, and our world, forward.
Shocking tales of civil servants working late have become commonplace.
"Members know the needs of their districts better than civil servants working in Washington, D.C".
Civil servants' working week has already been increased from 37.5 to 40 hours, a way of reducing overtime payments.
Those surveyed who least identified with being losers were civil servants, working for the government or the Communist Party.
As a civilian, he became one of the 2,000 civil servants working in the Met Office.
"She has been a wonderful role model for all civil servants, working her way from the bottom to the very top.
It was explicitly introduced in 1971 as an overnight, subsistence payment, directly modelled on the low rates civil servants working away from home overnight received.
He started with a tribute, not just to his ministerial colleagues, but to the civil servants working for him at the Department for Work and Pensions.
They aim to recognise public servants working in areas ranging from children and young people to older people, housing and regeneration, and transport.
When Jack Straw was home secretary, he joked that his sprawling department was full of civil servants working diligently on projects that might ruin his career.
