Ministers Quotes - Page 13

• I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

  Stockwell Day

  Wise, Moving, Brave New World

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• Manuel Valls is popular because the others in the government are unpopular. Interior ministers are always popular because they give people the feeling that they are taking care of security, even when they are just people with tough words and a soft hand.

  Marine Le Pen

  Government, Hands, People

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• We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

  Muhammad Ali

  Believe, Honorable, Helpers

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.

  Muhammad Ali

  Past, White, People

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Smart, Past

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.

  David C. Driskell

  Teacher, Dad, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Men, Community

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

  Tori Amos

  Father, Rocks, House

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• The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

  Tori Amos

  Daughter, Play, People

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• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Morning, Kings

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• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

  P. T. Barnum

  Children, Men, Needs

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• As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

  Roseanne Barr

  Israel, Pay, Bills

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

  Tony Blair

  Phones, Prime, Mobile

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• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

  Bono

  School, Two, Oil

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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Issues, Borders

  "Cain: 'President Threw Israel Under the Bus'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

  David Cameron

  Want, Kingdoms, England

  David Cameron, Dylan Jones (2008). “Cameron on Cameron: conversations with Dylan Jones”

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• I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

  David Cameron

  Europe, Play, Vision

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• Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

  Graydon Carter

  School, Men, Thinking

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• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, People

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• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Business, Responsibility

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• When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

  William Hague

  Believe, Home, Hypocrite

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Cutting, Agency, Numbers

  "'The last chance election for Britain'". Speech by the Rt Hon William Hague MP, leader of the Conservative party, to the spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

  William Hague

  Lying, Men, Cynical

  William Hague's Speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

  David Icke

  Eye, Two, Black

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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