Ministers Quotes

• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  Indira Gandhi

  Motivational, Want, Can Do

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• I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

  Denzel Washington

  Movie, Kings, Father

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• My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

  David Wilkerson

  Son, Conferences, Gary

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• At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister. Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.

  Harold Wilson

  Sleep, Successful, Political

  "The Governance of Britain".

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• Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Long, Mind, Progress

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.648, Delphi Classics

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• My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Mom, Sarcastic, Sunday

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• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Years, Here I Am

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• Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Book, Delight

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

  Anna Lee

  Boyfriend, Prayer, Dad

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• The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Yardsticks, Moral, Nations

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• There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

  Fredrik Bajer

  War, Two, Navy

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• But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

  Fredrik Bajer

  War, Literature, Venture

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• Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Men, Flesh

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.281

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• People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

  John Ashcroft

  Atheist, People, Atheism

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• New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Party, Two, Ambassadors

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• All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Office, Spheres, Welfare

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.33

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• A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

  Mike Huckabee

  Dog, West, Arkansas

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• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Silly, Writing

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• This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

  Charles II of England

  Action, Very True, Miscellaneous

  Reply to Lord Rochester's epitaph on him.

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• Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Time, Failure

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2012

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• 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

  Men, Sermons

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

  Brian Mulroney

  Cabinets, Prime, Missions

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• In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Political, Firsts

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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

  Confidence, People, Prime

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• I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

  Pierre Loti

  Wish, Desire, Missionary

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