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• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  Sam Kinison

  Couple, Church, One Day

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• Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

  Joe Lhota

  Government, Loyal, Kingdoms

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• I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

  John Major

  Thinking, Roles, Prime

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

  John Major

  Different, Conservative, Prime

  "John Major: The old man and me". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

  George McGovern

  Thinking, Iran, Iraq

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• My dad was a Methodist minister.

  George McGovern

  Dad, Methodists, My Dad

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• I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Males, Female

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

  Joyce Meyer

  Men, Thinking, Watches

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, www.religionnewsblog.com. May 20, 2005.

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• When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

  Brian Mulroney

  Priorities, Cabinets, Ottawa

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• I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Block, Growth, Economy

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• Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Community

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• Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Important, Ministry

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• Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Ministry

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• Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

  Henri Nouwen

  Moving, Heart, Blessing

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• To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, People, Age

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• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Army, Government

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• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  Frances O'Grady

  Husband, Government, Appreciate

  "The derisory pensions offer hits women workers hard" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Doctors, Grandfather

  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

  Little Richard

  Littles, Revival, Conductor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

  Pat Robertson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessing

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• Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Football, Years, Occupation

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Jesus, Real, Names

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• Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Support, Election

  Ariel Sharon's address to the Israeli Knesset before the vote on the Gaza 'disengagement plan', www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2004.

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• In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

  Peter Singer

  Respect, Unique, Thinking

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• I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Father, Funeral, Remember

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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