- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appoint Quotes
On choosing leaders, trust, and the weight of appointments.
These appoint quotes look at the responsibility of choosing the right people, from cabinet ministers a prime minister must trust to officials in Government roles.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the other Republican candidates, Mr. Trump is pro-life, pro-marriage and will appoint conservatives to the courts.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will always support a vote. The constitution gives the president the right to appoint justices with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Senate does have the right to say no; they do not have the right to say nothing.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people in Washington assumed if Obama made it to the White House he would appoint Biden as his secretary of state, a position Biden openly admitted he wanted.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.
- Counterparts
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump should appoint a special presidential envoy and empower them to wage an unconventional war against Taliban and Daesh forces, to hold the corrupt officials accountable and to negotiate with their Afghan counterparts and the Afghan Taliban that are willing to reconcile with Kabul.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020