Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Domenici

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,

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

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.

Peter Temple

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.

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,

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,

Sam Nunn

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.

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.

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.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

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

Brian Mulroney

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.

Stephen Harper

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.

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.

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

Stephen Harper

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

Nicola Sturgeon

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.

Pete Domenici

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 think we can declare the cabinet during the three weeks.

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

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.

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

Those letters are going out to Cabinet members this week.

Mohammed Dahlan

All the options are open, ... Personally, I am not thinking of resigning at all, because it means that I will be running away ... but for sure, the Cabinet might consider taking such a step.

Benjamin Disraeli

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

Any prime minister has a limited number of major policy initiatives he can pursue at any given time, three to five would be the maximum. So the government really has to have a clear sense of its priorities and the cabinet ministers need to have a clear idea of what they'll push within their departments.

Robert Rubin

After sitting with the vice president in the White House, the Oval Office and the Cabinet room over six-and-a-half years, that he was consistently sound, sensible, practical and willing to fight for politically difficult issues,

Presently in Ottawa, that technical committee is a committee of cabinet ministers which means, obviously, operating without any public scrutiny,

John Sununu

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.

Shinzo Abe

This is a Cabinet to actually implement the reforms.

Barbara Boxer

You don't unite this country when you pick someone for your Cabinet who is so far out of the mainstream that it really divides the country,

A committee of five secretaries, headed by the cabinet secretary, will now look into the process and submit their recommendation to the empowered group of ministers within two weeks.