Cabinet Position Quotes

Jimmy [Carter]'s still mad because I wouldn't take secretary of state. I want to be director of alcohol and firearms.

We have a whole lot of the president-elect's nominees that have not filled out their ethics disclosures. I can never remember a time when anybody was voted on for a Cabinet position who hadn't completed their ethics report, and certainly nobody should be allowed to vote until that's done.

My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.

I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.

I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

As I explained when I announced that I was turning down a potential opportunity to serve as Secretary of Education, I voted for Hillary Clinton and was sorely disappointed she didn't win.

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.

Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been an adviser to Trump, although he still very publicly couldn't land a job in the president's Cabinet, despite providing that counsel. And Kobach has a long history of making up facts to help him pass unfair voter suppression laws and push extreme anti-immigrant proposals.

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.

The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step.

My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

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

To resign from the front bench is not a decision to be taken lightly.

Based on my experience and record, I'm the best person to take Jeff Sessions' place.

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

Yeah, I want a job in Barack's Cabinet. How about a job, Mr. Obama? Please? Please?

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

We have 535 Secretaries of State.

... the head of the Cabinet is primus inter pares [first among equals], and occupies a position which, so long as it lasts, is one of exceptional and peculiar power.

There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.