quotes about Ministers
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In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
-- Albert Speer -
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
-- Alexander DownerSource : Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2007.
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My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
-- Anna Lee -
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
-- Benazir BhuttoSource : "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet, news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2007.
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It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.
-- Bertie AhernSource : "I've broken absolutely no codes, ethical, tax, legal or otherwise". Brian Dobson's RTÉ interview, www.irishtimes.com. September 27, 2006.
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Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.
-- Brian Clough -
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
-- Brian Mulroney -
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
-- Brian Mulroney -
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This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
-- Charles II of EnglandSource : Reply to Lord Rochester's epitaph on him.
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I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
-- Colin Firth -
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Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.
-- Dave Brubeck -
My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.
-- David Wilkerson -
You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
-- DeForest Kelley -
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
-- Dorothy MaloneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze -
I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
-- Ehud Olmert -
A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
-- Ehud Olmert -
I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.
-- Emma Bonino -
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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
-- Eric Idle -
Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.
-- Evan Esar -
The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.
-- Francis Atterbury -
My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.
-- Fritz Sauckel -
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Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.
-- Geoff Hoon -
I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland
-- Gerry Adams -
My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.
-- Goh Chok TongSource : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
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Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
-- Horace Walpole -
The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.
-- Hugh Price Hughes -
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
-- Indira Gandhi -
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
-- J. C. Ryle -
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I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
-- J. C. Ryle -
We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
-- J. I. Packer -
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals
-- Jimmy Swaggart -
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I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.
-- Joan Kirner -
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
-- Joanna SouthcottSource : Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”
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If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.
-- John BercowSource : "The Saturday interview: John Bercow" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
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It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.
-- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos -
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It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
-- Joyce Cary -
I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
-- Kamisese Mara -
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
-- Kenneth ClarkeSource : "In his own words". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.
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It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
-- Kevin Rudd -
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I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.
-- Kim Campbell -
If I had campaigned for it, Arvind Kejriwal would have become the chief minister of Delhi.
-- Kisan Baburao Hazare -
The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.
-- Laurent LamotheSource : "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.
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The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.
-- Libba Bray -
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
-- Little Richard -
My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
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It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister
-- Margaret Thatcher -
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.
-- Michael Heseltine -
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
-- Oscar Romero -
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Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister.
-- Peter De Vries -
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
-- Ralph Washington Sockman -
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
-- Robert Peel -
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I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.
-- Silvio Berlusconi -
The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.
-- Stanley BaldwinSource : 1927 Speech, 9 Jan.
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Caste is important for selection of home minister.
-- Sushilkumar Shinde -
Chris Huhne is a remarkably successful and powerful minister
-- Tim Montgomerie -
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It's not just our job to minister to other peoples' needs. We also have to minister to their potential.
-- Tommy Barnett -
So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
-- Tony Blair -
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
-- William Feather -
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The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
-- William Gurnall -
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
-- William Shakespeare -
I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
-- Wilson Mizner -
I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country
-- Yanis VaroufakisSource : "Greek debt plan suffers blow as ECB cuts banks’ access to cash" by Jacquelin Magnay, www.swcs.com.au. February 6, 2015.
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I have changed my Ministers but I have not changed my measures.Iamstill formoderation, and Iwill governby it.
-- Anne, Queen of Great Britain -
Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans -
As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.
-- Guido WesterwelleSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.
-- Hershel ShanksSource : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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Of course I want to be [prime minister].
-- Jeremy CorbynSource : "Jeremy Corbyn faces shadow cabinet mutiny over Trident". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 30, 2015.
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As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.
-- Matt Ruff -
I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.
-- Sadiq Khan -
Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'
-- Sasha Frere-Jones -
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What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.
-- Michael HowardSource : "Blair: Howard is exploiting Dixon" by Tom Happold, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.
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I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.
-- Rab Butler -
Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.
-- Frederick WisemanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.
-- Haddon W. Robinson -