quotes about Cabinets
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.
-- Alex Sink -
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
-- Banksy -
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Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”
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I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.
-- Bertie AhernSource : "I've broken absolutely no codes, ethical, tax, legal or otherwise". Brian Dobson's RTÉ interview, www.irishtimes.com. September 27, 2006.
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When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
-- Brian Mulroney -
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Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
-- Brian Mulroney -
And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.
-- Cheech Marin -
I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.
-- Clive Owen -
I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.
-- Darius Rucker -
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I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
-- Dolley MadisonSource : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
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Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.
-- Edward Bernays -
In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
-- Edward Heath -
Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.
-- Emily Henderson -
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
-- Fay Wray -
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
-- Gary Bauer -
If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.
-- Ian MacfarlaneSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.
-- Jen Lancaster -
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
-- Joyce Cary -
In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
-- Lucy Powell -
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
-- Marc BlochSource : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.10, Manchester University Press
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If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.
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Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.
-- Norton Juster -
I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].
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Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.
-- PZ MyersSource : "Atheism ≠ Fascism". freethoughtblogs.com. June 12, 2011.
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Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.
-- Reba McEntire -
I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
-- Sara Zarr -
I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.
-- Scott McCallum -
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
-- Scott Putesky -
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During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.
-- Shinzo Abe -
The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.
-- Spencer Bachus -
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.
-- Steve Coogan -
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
-- Stockwell Day -
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Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.
-- Tim Vine -
The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?
-- Timothy Garton AshSource : "Whether it's hacking or the NSA, some of us don't accept that privacy is dead". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
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As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
-- William Hague -
Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.
-- Dana CowinSource : "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.
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George W. Bush filled out his cabinet fairly quickly.
-- Kristen WelkerSource : Source: www.msnbc.com
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Donald Trump has clearly put conservative around him, he's clearly taking conservative policy positions, and I think for conservatives, the first, most important pick was selecting Mike Pence, then picking Neil Gorsuch to fill this tiebreaking vote on the Supreme Court. Looking at the Cabinet. Most conservatives are pretty happy.
-- Matt Schlapp -
A lot will depend on who [Donald] Trump chooses for key cabinet positions, but even more will depend on his consultations with his key advisor (himself).
-- David KriegerSource : Source: www.counterpunch.org
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I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.
-- E. J. Dionne -
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Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.
-- Roz Chast -
Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.
-- John A. Macdonald