Cabinets Quotes - Page 6

• Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.

  Joe Biden

  Running, Foxes, Rating

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden". Interview with Arnold Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• There is definitely a mood in the party for making sure that two cabinet heavyweights we have got, who come from different traditions, different sides of the EU referendum campaign, Theresa May and Michael Gove - it would be right to put them to the party in the country.

  Nicky Morgan

  Country, Party, Two

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Class, People

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories from the day, consolidating what it needs to and puts in whatever file. And then if there's something that doesn't fit in any of the files and doesn't really belong, you'll forget about it. So it's a way of really getting a succinct way of storing things in your brain.

  Shelby Harris

  Memories, Filing Cabinet, Opening Up

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know, putting three Republicans in my cabinet -- something that is unprecedented -- making sure that they were invited here to the White House to talk about the economic recovery plan, all those were not designed simply to get some short-term votes. They were designed to try to build up some trust over time. And I think that, as I continue to make these overtures, over time, hopefully that will be reciprocated.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Thinking, White

  First Presidential Prime Time Press Conference, delivered 9 February 2009

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• I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Thinking, Medicine

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.

  Don Johnston

  Decision, Three, Matter

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• Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

  John Ashcroft

  Blessing, Opportunity, Scary

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• In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Medicine, Age

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.30, Penguin

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, Years, Presidential

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

  H. H. Asquith

  War, Office, Three

  In Alistair Horne 'Price of Glory' (1962) ch. 2

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• After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Summer, Volleyball

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• Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Children, Sacrifice, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Class, Groups, Bolivia

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• [Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

  John Gay

  Nurse, Gulliver, Council

  "The 100 best novels, No 3 - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

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• If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What we recognize and love is the same kind of pattern we see in every face, the pattern of our own life form. The same principles apply to buildings that apply to mollusks, birds or trees. Architecture is the play of patterns derived from nature and ourselves.

  Jonathan Hale

  Love Is, Light, Order

  Jonathan Hale (1994). “The Old Way of Seeing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.

  Drew Carey

  Thinking, House, Television

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• Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.

  Richard G. Scott

  Filing Cabinet, World, Scripture

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• I have a three-legged milk stool in my office perched on top of a cabinet. It is a great symbol for how to succeed in business. There are three legs: Take care of the customer, have a little fun, make a little money. If you don't do that, it doesn't work, but if you do, it comes together easily.

  Larry H. Miller

  Fun, Office, Together

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• I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

  Simon Hoggart

  Turkeys, Paris, News

  "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].

  Paul Gascoigne

  Alex, Ferguson, Trophies

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• [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Amber, Use

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• I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

  Anna Journey

  Thinking, Inspire, Curiosity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn't like it, didn't like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sweet, Sick, Laughing

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.64, Harper Collins

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