Quotes for All
During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster. Gail Collins
What war? said the Prime Minister sharply. No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I’ll be damned, he said defiantly, if they shall have a war without consulting me. What’s a cabinet for, if there’s not more mutual confidence than that? What do they … Read more
Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups. Evo Morales
Things like Kitchen Cabinet, I’m not sure they necessarily tell the Australian people whether you have judgement, whether you have discernment, whether you have intellectual acuity, whether you are able to develop policy, whether you are able to represent individual cases to the highest levels of government successfully and in a manner that actually achieves … Read more
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. Emperor Norton
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
I’m not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women’s movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas. Eleanor Smeal
We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we’re hoping that there’s far – there will be many more women in the cabinet. It appears there will be and we’re hoping that will happen. And – but the ones that have been picked, by and large, we have worked with. There’s a couple … Read more
The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, \”if you only knew!\” Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder. Edwina Currie
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