Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Sharon

have to convene a Cabinet meeting and have to decide what to do.

I think we can declare the cabinet during the three weeks.

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

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,

Walter Bagehot

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.

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

In order to legitimize ourselves, we had to do something to ensure that the Cabinet itself was more representative and democratic.

Joe Fontana

Canadians, cabinet ministers, Parliamentarians - they want their CBC to be operating.

The distribution of cabinet jobs between Law & Justice and Citizens' Platform must be equal and fair so the government can work effectively.

Vali Nasr

The key issue will be what kind of power the Sunnis get from these numbers when it comes to negotiations about the government. What kind of cabinet posts will they get? How will resources be distributed? What kind of representation will they have in patronage and government?

The goal of the Palestinian cabinet is to form a national coalition cabinet to serve the interests of the Palestinian people.

The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes.

It's not fair to the people, ... The prime minister and cabinet are the ones that make all the decisions of government and if we don't have a voice there that means our part of the country is not represented.

Everybody knows those were two tough losses. We couldn't say anything. We didn't do what we needed to do on the floor. They're fine. They all gave me thumbs' up. With me as the chief over my little cabinet members, when the chips are down, I always like to fight through it.

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

It surprises and alarms me because Evans is one of the more capable cabinet ministers and has sent out all kinds of messages that she supports the public health-care system.

I want elections as soon as possible. ...The most natural formula is that the cabinet resigns and we have elections this year.

It is the first time in my experience that major changes that were rejected during preliminary considerations have been made to such a high-profile document without prior discussion by the Cabinet and coordination with the main ministers.

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.

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.

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.

Shinzo Abe

This is a Cabinet to actually implement the reforms.

for his courtesy and convenience, and that is because he is a former Cabinet official.

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,

It is rare that a new Cabinet shows no clear policy goals, or even what it wants to achieve.

Salam Fayyad

We want the new cabinet to succeed. But this requires an understanding on many issues, especially the nature of the Palestinian political system and the role of the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO.

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.

The Cabinet will not vote on it until there's a contract. Time is obviously of the essence.

The cabinet will, however, discuss the price issue Monday where senior ministers will evaluate the latest hike of fuel prices in the global market and its impact on national economy.

Sebastian Coe

The Cabinet was a very important staging post for us

The cabinet has been shaken about a bit, but it's the same old jar of jellybeans.

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,