Cabinets Quotes - Page 12

• If you saw General [James] Mattis and General [John] Kelly and Senator [Jeff] Sessions and Mr.[Rex] Tillerson and Congressman [Mike] Pompeo testify, you thought, look, this is a reasonable more than a reasonable, I would say, cabinet.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Looks, Saws, General James Mattis

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We have a whole lot of the president-elect's nominees that have not filled out their ethics disclosures. I can never remember a time when anybody was voted on for a Cabinet position who hadn't completed their ethics report, and certainly nobody should be allowed to vote until that's done.

  Patrick Leahy

  Filled Out, President, Done

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the hype generated by the publicity around the Internet and so on is not counter balanced by a political intelligence that is based on a technological culture.

  Paul Virilio

  Hype, Giving, Political

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

  Dick Gregory

  Powerful, School, Men

  "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Why aren't Democrats voting against President [Donald] Trump's cabinet nominees en masse? Is it because they're just a bunch soft-headed Beltway lifers who don't understand that the base is pissed and wants them to fight fight fight?

  Kevin Drum

  Fighting, Voting, President

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• I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, President, Range

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about a lot of these nominees. But I think, if you are actually going to turn someone down from a president's [Donald Trump] own Cabinet, it better be a lot more egregious than the cases we have seen.

  David Brooks

  Fighting, Thinking, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Daughter, Views

  Source: www.cbsnews.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

  Thinking, Important, Firsts

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved, and they're outstanding people.

  Donald Trump

  Running, People, Machines

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

  Donald Trump

  American History, Democrat, Obstruction

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim." Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me." "I thought you'd appreciate it." "Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you." "You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.

  Richelle Mead

  Rip, Mean, Appreciate

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.191, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury
  yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100
  feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can
  remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.

  Garrison Keillor

  Senior, Weekend, Luxury

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• The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Decision, Suffering

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• Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

  Barry Lyga

  Spring, Men, Doors

  Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.168, Random House

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• Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Party, Past, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1908). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”

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• I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

  Richard Jefferies

  Business, Lying, Equality

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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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.

  Michael Heseltine

  Trust, Prime, Ministers

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• A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

  Walter Bagehot

  States, Hyphens, Function

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.

  Clive Ponting

  Senior, Advice, Secret

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• From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox.

  Rich Lowry

  Choices, Unorthodox, Republican

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.

  Rich Lowry

  Thinking, Wealth, Republican

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

  E. J. Dionne

  Wish, Dwight Eisenhower, Republican

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• You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.

  E. J. Dionne

  Thinking, Hard Times, Worry

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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