Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Nikola Tesla

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.

Paul Keating

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.

You could look at people in India and say we are manufacturing the cabin that is going to be a part of the U.S. President's helicopter. That's a pretty big deal, right? There are 11 other heads of state who we support, but the fact is, to me, it's a very large deal.

Allan Gregg

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

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.

Our cabin is worth less than half our primary residence yet we're paying a lot more. And our premium just went up 56 percent.

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.

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 think we can declare the cabinet during the three weeks.

I think they have cabin fever this time of year. I think it's a way to release that.

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

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

Ariel Sharon

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

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

Jim Henson

Let us use this log cabin as a means of looking back.

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.

Bruce Golding

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.

Stephen Harper

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

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.

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

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

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

The process is the same, but the time elements are different than we have for cabin rental.

Tom Lehrer

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.

Stephen Harper

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.

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.

Abbas expressed his sorrow that the cabinet ignored the principles Abbas stressed in his letter of commission.

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.

A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle

After thoroughly reviewing the committee's report, all the members of the Cabinet Committee came to the conclusion that the report was not fair.