Quotes About Appointment

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

Ironically, Hillary Clinton's appointment in 2008 as secretary of state was forced on Obama by her presidential campaign supporters, who insisted she play a major role in the then-new Democratic administration after a bruising primary fight.

You don't even have to be a lawyer to be on the Supreme Court, which I think is hilarious.

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

Nobody is entitled to a promotion to the Supreme Court.

The Constitution entrusts the Senate with the duty to provide to the President the 'advice and consent' for a lifetime appointment on the United States Supreme Court. It is a serious responsibility.

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it's controversial or perceived as political.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.

Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

If you are an excitable boy or girl who thinks that politics might just be the answer to your problems, perhaps you should consider making an appointment with a psychiatrist.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.