Cabinet Quotes

Welcome to Cabinet Quotes, where we delve into the wisdom, wit, and insights surrounding the pivotal institution of government cabinets. Cabinets, serving as the core advisory body to heads of state or government, have historically played a crucial role in shaping policies, influencing decisions, and steering nations through myriad challenges. From crafting legislation to managing crises, the individuals comprising these cabinets carry immense responsibility, often leaving behind a trail of memorable quotes that encapsulate their perspectives, strategies, and sometimes, their sense of humor.

Within the annals of political history, cabinets have been home to some of the most brilliant minds, astute strategists, and passionate advocates. Their words not only reflect the ethos of their times but also offer profound glimpses into the complexities of governance, diplomacy, and leadership. Whether it’s a succinct aphorism capturing a timeless truth or a poignant remark that reverberates through generations, the quotes emanating from cabinet members provide invaluable insights into the inner workings of government and the challenges inherent in steering the ship of state. As we journey through the corridors of power, let us explore the words that have shaped nations, policies, and the course of history itself.

Now, without further ado, delve into the treasury of wisdom and wit as we present a collection of notable quotes from cabinet members past and present. Feel free to use them as inspiration, adorn them with stylish fonts, or incorporate them into your own projects to add a touch of gravitas or levity, as the situation demands. These quotes serve not only as a testament to the individuals who uttered them but also as windows into the ever-evolving landscape of governance and statesmanship.

Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn’t decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and you have a former prime minister, Olympic gold medallist, army generals, cabinet ministers, and leaders in different spheres. Some kind of training started at the school level itself that helped create leaders. Roshni Nadar

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war. Fredrik Bajer

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: ‘You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;’ and asked for their resignations. Helen Thomas

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy. Nigel Lawson

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army’s point of view. Hideki Tojo

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours. Deborah Sampson

It’s passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes. Maureen Dowd

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn’t wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. Louise Mensch

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. Stockwell Day

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don’t have to worry about who’s going to be in his cabinet. Charles Krauthammer

For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents – with women representing half of the shadow cabinet – and working together at every level of the party. Jeremy Corbyn

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. Anthony J. D’Angelo

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

There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence ‘The Cabinet of Wonders.’ There’s a scene in the novel where there’s a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood. Marie Rutkoski

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.’ Luke Scott

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. Paul Keating

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet – one of only three in the developed world. Nicola Sturgeon

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding’s selection of a cabinet. George William Norris

I would love to get a Moonman! I’d put it next to my other awards. I don’t have a cabinet right now; they’re just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I’d have to build a cabinet. Ed Sheeran

I’m going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour’s regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. William Hague

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose. Alex Turner

I would take issue with the assertion that President Trump has reached out to a diverse group for his cabinet secretaries. In fact, his cabinet is one of the least diverse in modern history. Sarah McBride

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision. Pranab Mukherjee

In all the years I’ve been playing, I’ve never considered changing my cue. It was the first cue I ever bought, aged 13, picked from a cabinet in a Dunfermline snooker centre just because I liked the Rex Williams signature on it. I saved ?40 to buy it. It’s a cheap bit of wood, and it’s been the butt of other players’ jokes for ages. Stephen Hendry

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role. Jay Weatherill

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a ‘nether-nether-land’: things that were a little out of style but hadn’t reached the point of nostalgia. James Rosenquist

I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what mattered most to him. In my case, I have been working to improve the overall quality of life for working families for most of my adult life, and I think that experience resonated with the president. Hilda Solis

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don’t have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously. Gary Bauer

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year. Brian Mulroney

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. Edward Grey

When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it. Paul Weller

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister. Steve Coogan

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court. Cecile Richards

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. Elliott Abrams

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. Dolley Madison

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet. Charlie Gonzalez

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. William Hague

I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items. Roma Downey

You want me to become a leaker? I’m not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions. Menachem Begin

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. Newt Gingrich

Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the country, and most, if not all, of Trump’s cabinet is anti LGBT equality as well. Billy Eichner

When a terrorist goes to Parliament Hill, he’s looking for the prime minister and his cabinet. Pierre Poilievre

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the ‘other’ party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. Richard V. Allen

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud. Andrew Greeley

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn’t be so outspoken. Betty Ford

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. Nikola Tesla

I didn’t apply for shadow cabinet, because as an MP, I had nine critic portfolios, and so it doesn’t make any sense for me to be focusing on just one of those as an adviser on policy to the party. Annamie Paul

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week. Moshe Dayan

I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles I want to write. One is a romantic comedy; one’s about my dad’s life. I’ve also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. There’s also a really cool concept for a spy novel. Daniel Lubetzky

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals. Doris Kearns Goodwin

I don’t sound disloyal, but I’ve never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet. Stan Lee

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. Michael Gove

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister. Brian Mulroney

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented. Donald Rumsfeld

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result. Benjamin Netanyahu

Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys. Cenk Uygur

Government is a collective unity. There is no decision by cabinet which can be attributed to one individual. Emmerson Mnangagwa

If the government can afford luxury travel for its cabinet officials, then surely we can find the resources to invest in quality education, jobs skills training, and properly fund the State Department and foreign aid programs. Seth Moulton

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right. Fay Wray

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that’s in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren’t right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn’t matter. Alexander Downer

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I’ll say to myself: ‘I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn’t be there.’ Charlize Theron

Cabinet resolutions approving mass releases of terrorists deal a mortal blow to the status of Israel’s judges and courts. Ayelet Shaked

If Nick Clegg hadn’t been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn’t have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn’t have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn’t have had the mistakes we’ve seen in economic policy. Douglas Alexander

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music. Abbey Lincoln

It’s unreasonable to me that there’s a government in which the culture minister attacks the institutions she’s responsible for. The justice minister attacks the institutions she’s responsible for. The internal security minister attacks the institutions he’s responsible for. The Cabinet attacks the IDF, and the prime minister attacks everyone. Benny Gantz

Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time. Elaine Sciolino

You know, my dad served in the President’s Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people’s lives and I can help our children realize their dreams. Mitt Romney

I guess I’m not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can’t honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should. Clive Owen

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. Marc Bloch

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives – they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. Joe Eszterhas

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important. Daisy Berkowitz

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. Spencer Bachus

I’m the type of bloke who gets a flatpack cabinet from Ikea, puts it together without reading the instructions, then gets the drill out because the holes are in the wrong place. John Bishop

The ‘OK Plateau’ is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don’t get appreciably faster. That’s because it’s become automatic. You’ve moved it to the back of your mind’s filing cabinet. Joshua Foer

My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies. F. W. de Klerk

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us. Viktor Yanukovych

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter’s graduation. So many people don’t have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic. Tom Perez

Now, most dentist’s chairs go up and down, don’t they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought ‘This is unusual’. And the dentist said to me ‘Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet. Tim Vine

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President. Nelson Mandela

I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It’s super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials. Khloe Kardashian

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn’t embarrass a Cabinet member. Earl Butz

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan

A minister is supposed to be there to remind his permanent officials that they work for the rest of us. If, instead, he becomes the cabinet champion and public spokesman for his department, democracy is vitiated. Daniel Hannan

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They’re in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet. Chita Rivera

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. Peter Temple

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate. Stockwell Day

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, arguably President Obama’s best Cabinet appointment, has been leading a quiet revolution in clean-energy technology. Innovation is transforming this industry, costs are plummeting and entrepreneurs are devising radical new systems that create American jobs – in addition to protecting the planet. David Ignatius

There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed. Mario Monti

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn’t have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn’t swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet. Pat Robertson

Germany led the world in photography and film: ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’ and ‘Metropolis’ are works that, to this day, film buffs revere. Justin Cartwright

As far as I’m aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there’s a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case. William Hague

Nelson Mandela, Dada Vaswani, Harsh Mander, Shabana Azmi – I admire their humanitarian work. But sadly even Nelson Mandela could not keep corruption out of his cabinet and within a year, I am told, the victims of apartheid turned into perpetrators of corruption on their own people. Greed has no boundaries of colour or country does it? Amala Akkineni

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that’s what the bureaucracy understands. Brian Mulroney

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president’s Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it’s unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren’t genuinely motivated by the call to service. John Sununu

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama’s Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm. Jo Bonner

As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail. David Cameron

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. David Mamet

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo’s government, and he’s been a congressman for many years, and he’s running again. Miguel Syjuco

We made mistakes in 2018, as a candidate and as a campaign. I had not campaigned in 25 years, and people forgot me, they forgot my contributions as a congressman, they forgot my contributions as a cabinet secretary. Mike Espy

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. Roz Chast

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