Cabinet Quotations

The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what mattered most to him. In my case, I have been working to improve the overall quality of life for working families for most of my adult life, and I think that experience resonated with the president.

A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.

I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's been a congressman for many years, and he's running again.

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.

There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood.

We're going to have a meeting tomorrow, ... The president's summoned the relevant Cabinet and agency heads to a session in the White House where we'll begin to focus on this.

We want the new cabinet to succeed. But this requires an understanding on many issues, especially the nature of the Palestinian political system and the role of the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO.

The reduction to the attorney general is the same one we've applied to every cabinet in our administration.

The process of not giving it to the Cabinet for review means that that whole thing was pre-cooked.

We have a number of requirements and the Cabinet has moved in the right direction in the recent period.

We were committed at the time of the convention, and through the last debate, to put a free vote to the next Parliament on this issue, ... It will be a genuinely free vote when I am prime minister. I will not whip the cabinet; cabinet can vote as they want.

Let the Union Cabinet speak with one voice over the issue and then we will react. There are major differences between Congress leaders and Cabinet ministers over the issue.

Many of the cabinet cards are from the 1890s and when I look for them I try to find cards that show the children in their period clothing.

Several cabinet ministers became personally involved in this matter.

She was a larger-than-life figure. She was not the stuffy type of traditional cabinet minister.

Simpson Miller has been, indeed, like all the other contenders are - persons that are a part of the Cabinet which over the past many years has pursued a set of policies which have not produced the set of results that the country wants.

She can thank her lightning political career to the fact that Helmut Kohl needed to have a woman and an east German in his cabinet in 1991. By appointing Merkel, Kohl killed two birds with one stone.

Mr Lavagna was one of the few members of the Cabinet that seemed to have some understanding of the concerns and interests of investors.

One should judge the deeds and not the declarations. We have to wait and see if the new Cabinet will, in fact, be sworn in and how it will act, taking into account Arafat's staunch resistance to it and his capacity to undermine any process of reform.

Obviously I've tried my best within a small cabinet to try to represent all these different balances while at the same time obviously taking into account the skills and experience of individuals.

People who are in cabinet have more responsibility, but everyone in caucus, every elected member of this caucus, has equal power.

I am therefore stepping aside as Minister of Finance and Chair of Management Board of Cabinet pending a resolution of this issue,

I have a very clear idea of how executive cabinet runs because of the position I hold now. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see more participation next year.

I have never commented on a caucus issue or a shadow Cabinet issue, and I'm not about to start now.

From now on we will have two authorities and most likely this will lead to a clash. The struggle will be between the president's office on the one hand and the parliament and cabinet on the other.

Fundamentally, he was two years out of sync. He felt pressure to keep working on the job and drawing his Cabinet together. There was too much weighing against it.

He will direct the implementation of the state's plan through my cabinet and will coordinate the advisory committees that I will appoint to give me guidance in this rebuilding process,

He has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.

He came out of the Cabinet room. The helicopter had landed. People were getting on their coats to run off to the helicopter.

We can have all the hearings we want but we're going to be running in each other's way pretty soon and so are all the Cabinet members,

have to convene a Cabinet meeting and have to decide what to do.

The Palestinian Cabinet welcomes a meeting with Sharon but insists that such a meeting will not take place without the necessary preparation,

There is an obvious advantage to the UK industry if its beef is sold in a different section of the chill cabinet to imports because consumers are likely to pay more for beef from their country of choice and we know UK beef is attractive to purchasers who are more likely to pay a premium.

He didn't want to be governor, senator, president, vice president, cabinet member, none of that. His focus is totally on one thing - it's always been the city.

... He can start the equivalent of his third term now , by filling his presidential staff and cabinet with new faces -- or old faces in new positions -- and by concentrating on new or forgotten initiatives.

It is a difficult, complex but very important process for Israel, but will be implemented as the Cabinet and the Knesset decided,

I think we can declare the cabinet during the three weeks.

It is not possible to arrange for any broadcast of any Supreme Court proceeding, but when you get the Cabinet meetings on the air, call me.

I will place the public procurement policy (PPP) in the cabinet Monday next for making it into an act. I will also try to place a draft micro-credit regulatory framework in the cabinet for making it as an act on the same day.

I see a reshuffle as necessary to rejuvenate the cabinet going into another term. The fact that (Howard's) reshuffling his team shows he intends to hang around until the next election.

I respectfully submit that the alleged abuses by President Clinton do not indicate that he is a danger to the nation, ... Lying to the public and to his cabinet and aids is disgraceful, but if we would impeach all officials who lie about personal or official matters, I fear that the halls of government would be seriously depleted.

Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.

Our team is talented and diversified and reflects Canada and we will work hard for all Canadians. The Cabinet that I have put together is smaller, but it will be more focused and more effective.

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

President Arroyo has instructed the Cabinet to conduct dialogues not only with the oil firms but with all affected sectors, including workers, small and medium enterprises, manufacturers and transport groups among others, that are affected by this crisis.

President Arroyo has given the go-signal to the Cabinet to get the ID system on track for immediate implementation.

Suddenly the cocktail cabinet closed, we were left to cart our own cases, and the limousine was canceled.

My smaller cabinet and more streamlined cabinet structure are designed for work -- not for show.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

I was hoping the cabinet would be a breath of fresh air, but there's some stale air there. The people of New Jersey deserve a fresh start that can articulate his vision without baggage.

It doesn't mean we shouldn't mention a Lebanese cabinet crisis, for example, but we don't have to spend two minutes with it from the Middle East.

I think he was just about one of the best Cabinet officers that I've known in a lifetime.

I strongly recommend that we suggest to the administration that they quickly decide on some kind of an executive headquarters and chief recovery person so that all of this effort can be coordinated, ... We can have all the hearings and ideas we want, but we're going to be running in each other's way pretty soon, as are the Cabinet members.

I thought it would be more interesting ... to get her into power where basically her own Cabinet is against her. The whole world is crashing down on her.

The arrest of a cabinet minister proves the falseness of Israel's arguments that it seeks peace.

The Anglo Leasing cases represent an excellent opportunity for the authorities to invoke the disciplinary provisions of the Code of Conduct signed by the new Cabinet weeks ago.

That was the catalyst for it. Obviously, we knew the governor differed from conservatives on some issues. But when he appointed Gray Davis' cabinet secretary as his chief of staff, the recall, the reform movement was RIP.

I was opposed to the deal but all my cabinet colleagues were in favour,

You can be sure this will be cited in future years when other Cabinet nominees are not confirmed. Once you break the taboo, it's broken for all time.

Well, it took everybody a while to build relationships of trust, whether it was the White House staff with the cabinet agencies.

You are going to be scrutinized very closely on that score and you need people who aren't going to stumble, especially in the current climate we've got where there's cynicism. People are watching, people are much more attentive to government and cabinet ministers.

We know there's plenty of demand, not only in Wichita, but all over the country for these folks, ... We recently visited in Little Rock, Ark., where there are several companies there needing cabinet makers for their aircraft as well.

Unlike other legislative proposals, this legislation finally would give the cabinet meaningful enforcement authority.

The presidency and the cabinet must both take part in running the state, like foreign policy and the finance, defense, interior and oil ministries.

Those letters are going out to Cabinet members this week.

When you stack up what he's spending next to his cabinet colleagues, Mr. Volpe's spending is out of line and he should be reined in.

This would have been the perfect opportunity for Premier Klein to re-commit to a smaller, more streamlined cabinet without having to fire any ministers. But instead he opted to increase an already bloated cabinet.

The debilitating effect of the cabinet appointment fiasco is clearly nowhere as large as the cognoscenti would suggest.

Well, that's the impression they have, but as far as I am concern, I must appoint cabinet people that I know and I believe who can perform the job.

We consider emergency contraception something of a staple that ought to be in every woman's medicine cabinet just in case, whether it's a time where a condom breaks, you forgot to take a few pills, you forgot to put your patch on, or you have an incident of unwanted intercourse, forced intercourse.

The one thing that's going to be taken into consideration throughout is, how many cabinet ministers can you have from Alberta?

This shows there is a deep understanding of what the cabinet has done up to now and its stance on reform,

While I am honored to have my name mentioned for a Cabinet position, I am not interested in going back into government at this juncture in my life,

We will move as rapidly as we can to have a Cabinet in place by the time of the inauguration.

When I won then, I didn't have the game. I've become one of the best players in European and around the world - it's just that my trophy cabinet is a little bare.

The president looks across the cabinet table at the vice president and has to realize, 'The only reason he's there is in case I die.

The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.

Yes, we will face pressure on the prices of goods but the President has put the entire Cabinet on notice to focus on measures to stabilize prices and firm up the safety nets for the poorest sectors,

We also clean up the cabinets and if necessary repaint them, before holding them in stores awaiting call-off by Orange. Refurbishment saves several thousands of pounds per cabinet compared to purchasing new product.

The opposition parties don't want the public to misunderstand that we are campaigning for cabinet portfolios.

We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project,

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

We had a good Cabinet meeting, talked about a lot of issues. Secretary of State and Defense brought us up to date about our desires to spread freedom and peace around the world.

You have to know the importance of this operation with three cabinet members coming to the site. If this site is that critical, then I suggest they provide the money to make sure the power supplies to the two pipelines will not be affected by the next hurricane.

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Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.

Dinky and the other Cabinet members were all over her, giving her a bouquet and singing 'If We Hold On Together'.

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.

Angela Merkel is not to be envied at this time. It was one of the key ideas of the potential partners that the three party chairs would sit together at the Cabinet table.