Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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,

We will move as rapidly as we can to have a Cabinet in place by the time of the inauguration.

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,

Abhisit Vejjajiva

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

Luke Scott

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

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.

Gilles Duceppe

He presided over a cabinet in which the No. 2 man was Paul Martin,

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,

The secretary is making no statements of any kind about Thoroughbred. Because she will be sitting, in effect, as a judge in this case, she is not discussing it with others. Nor is she reading the expressions of opinion that several people have sent to the cabinet since release of the hearing officer's recommendation. But it is her intention to make an objective ruling.

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.