Cabinets Quotes - Page 13

• [The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.

  Bill McKibben

  Dying, President, Coral Reefs

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• First of all, Donald Trump cabinet or - I call it the 3-G cabinet, Goldman, generals and gazillionaires. And I think it's one of the things that for someone who has worked around the world for profit, it is different than working around the world to make sure we have strong alliances and to make sure that we are in the strongest position to protect our country.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• They [people from the Donald Trump cabinet] haven't had experience in the areas that they're being asked to manage in a very complicated world and a very complicated government.

  Claire McCaskill

  Government, Complicated World, People

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• From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox.

  Rich Lowry

  Choices, Unorthodox, Republican

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• I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.

  Rich Lowry

  Thinking, Wealth, Republican

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• I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

  E. J. Dionne

  Wish, Dwight Eisenhower, Republican

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• You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.

  E. J. Dionne

  Thinking, Hard Times, Worry

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages.

  E. J. Dionne

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim." Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me." "I thought you'd appreciate it." "Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you." "You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.

  Richelle Mead

  Rip, Mean, Appreciate

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.191, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• 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.

  Walter Bagehot

  States, Hyphens, Function

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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