Cabinet Member Quotes

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

I've been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.

I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.

We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.

Every president needs an S. O. B.

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

Seward must be got out of the cabinet. He is Lincoln's evil genius. He has been President de Facto, and has kept a sponge saturated with chloroform to Uncle Abe's nose.

My role is not to be the President’s friend….When I am no longer the Chief of Staff, I expect to be the President’s friend.

[Sir Robert] Walpole was a minister given by the King to the people. [William] Pitt [the Elder] was a minister given to the King—as an adjunct.

Secretary Tillerson is not going anywhere. I can vouch for that. He is where he is, he continues to be strong in how he handles foreign policy, and I continue to work well with him.

There's no question, I think, as more and more people get to know Rex Tillerson, they're going to be really proud of the choice that Donald Trump made as our next secretary of state.

The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

... pure desecration, desecration of public property ... the most deplorably undignified conduct ... ever witnessed on the part of a Cabinet member.

Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job.

Hillary Clinton has reportedly accepted Barack Obama's offer to become secretary of state. That's what they're saying in the New York Times. Yeah, according to Bill Clinton, this is the first time in 20 years that Hillary has said 'yes.'

Jeff Sessions wished he wasn't the attorney general. The president Donald Trump has the most incompetent cabinet in history, and he's unhappy with only one of them. Only Jeff Sessions.

What about Sarah Palin. Donald Trump had suggested she would be in his cabinet if he won. Is she going to be in?

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.

I was born in the UK and brought up by my single mother in Ghana, where being black was unexceptional. As an adult, I learnt to succeed in white Britain, going from a state sixth form, to Oxford university, to a well-paid job in the City, to becoming the first black Conservative MP to attend the cabinet.

I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of actually running a department.

I am not bound by instructions from the State Department. I am a member of the President's cabinet and take instructions only from him.

Every President needs a hand holder.

I don't think I have suffered for want of being a Cabinet minister. I don't have a Cabinet minister to whom I report. I report directly to the Prime Minister.