Even Quote by David Lidington

Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital;…

— Tony Benn

A minister is supposed to be there to remind his permanent officials that they work for the rest of us. If, instead, he becomes…

— Daniel Hannan

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never…

— Hermann Hesse

“A Cabinet Minister, the responsible head of thar most vital of all departments, wandering alone - grieving - sometimes near audibly lamenting - for…

— H.G. Wells

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His…

— Henri Nouwen

If there is anything that puzzles me in this game, it is that the longer that you are in the job of prime minister,…

— Pierre Trudeau

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

— Nancy Astor

“..each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely aware that…

— Jeffrey Archer

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious…

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he…

— Henry Mintzberg

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…

— Nirmala Sitharaman