Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses."
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Cabinets
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George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking."
Abbey Lincoln
Jazz Singer, Actress
"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."
Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
"If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it."
Lindsey Graham
Politician
"I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don`t see why it wouldn`t apply to the president."
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"It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister."
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"I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?" Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer."
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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."
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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."
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"The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet."
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"The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself."
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